Abstract: The movement to lightemitting diode (LED) lighting systems worldwide is accelerating quickly as energy savings and reduction in hazardous materials increase in importance. Government regulations and rapidly lowering prices ...

Abstract: The combined law of the wall and wake, with the inclusion of the “roughness depression functionâ€‌ for the inner law in the “Logâ€‌ region, is used as the inner coordinates' velocity profile in the integral form of the ...

Abstract: There are disk-drive data storage applications best served by single-sided recording configurations. These include situations where (i) storage requirements can be achieved on a single side of a ...

Abstract: A device for measuring the biomechanical properties of soft tissue via palpation was developed. The device, which is worn by a medical professional, incorporates sensors that collect data on ...

Abstract: Increased storage capacity and decreased power consumption are two key motivations in the development of hard disk drive (HDD) storage products. Two ideas that address these areas have recently received attention in the ...

Abstract: 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 ...

Abstract: The current effort was motivated by the increasing appearance of data storage devices in small portable and mobile product formats and the need for these devices to deliver high storage capacity, ...

Abstract: This paper describes the derivation and numerical solution of a lubrication equation appropriate for high Knudsen number flows and certain types of striated rough surfaces. The derivation begins ...

Abstract: A metal foil disk offers some of the best characteristics of both the hard disk and floppy disk for digital data storage. The current work defines an opposed slider air-bearing arrangement ...