...James White Design of a near contact air bearing interface such as that created by a recording head slider and data storage disk requires consideration of a lubrication equation that is appropriate for high Knudsen number flows. The Poiseuille flow database reported by Fukui and Kaneko, 1990...

... recording head sliders. data storage high Knudsen number rough surface air bearing interface lubrication equation The study of surface roughness effects on gas bearing performance usually adheres to the requirement that the characteristic length scale of the roughness is small compared...

... energy than a hard disk while providing storage densities and data transfer rates typical of a hard disk. The zero-load sliders were chosen in order to make negligible the air bearing interface normal force acting on the disk surface that can lead to high speed disk instability. The asymmetry...