Use of an upwind finite volume method to solve the air bearing problem of hard disk drives

Numerical Simulation of the Slider Air B

Numerical Simulation of the Slider Air Bearing Problem of Hard Disk Drives by Two Multidimensional Upwind Residual Distribution Schemes over Unstructured Triangular Meshes

✍ Lin Wu; D.B. Bogy 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 684 KB

In this paper we present two multigrid numerical schemes over unstructured triangular meshes that solve the slider air bearing problem of hard disk drives. For each fixed slider attitude, the air bearing pressure is obtained by solving the generalized Reynolds equation. The convection part of the eq