Contamination tribology of hard disk drives
The next-generation of magnetic data storage systems may be able to hold 1 Tb/in2 of data, but they could still fail due to contamination. Particulate contamination in hard disk drives is a function of the air flow in the head-disk interface.
PFTL Researcher(s): Thomas Diaz, TBA
Method(s) employed: CFD, computational tribology, particle dynamics, PAML
Sponsor(s): Seagate, PITA
Reference(s): N/A
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