A numerical study of high-speed hydrodynamic gas bearing performance is presented using
both finite element and finite difference methods. Efficient numerical procedures are …

A numerical model is developed to study the effect of texture on air bearing sliders for large
Knudsen numbers. The effect of texture location, texture size, and density on the pressure …

A finite element based optimization software Altair OptiStruct is used to optimize the design
of suspensions in hard disk drives. Topology optimization, topography optimization and …

The direct simulation Monte Carlo method is used to study rarefied gas flow between an
inclined plane slider bearing and a nanochannel representing one groove in discrete track …

This paper is concerned with the optimization of the location and size of thermal flying height
control (TFC) elements in magnetic recording sliders. It investigated the performance of a so …

A hybrid optimization approach, the combined genetic algorithm-subregion method, which
combines the advantage of the genetic algorithm and the subregion approach, is presented …

This article presents a detailed iteration method for coupled air bearing and thermal-
structure analysis, and introduces a node-to-node schematic for mapping the heat transfer …

Currently, heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology has been proposed as a
method for enabling higher storage density. In this paper, the molecular dynamic simulation …

The ever shortening product cycle for magnetic recording disk drives demands a fast and
accurate numerical prediction of the slider's flying characteristics during the design stage. A …

Sliders flying over patterned or discrete track media are exposed to an entirely different
pressure field from the air bearing than in the case of present day" smooth" disks. In this first …