Design of hydrodynamic bearings for high-speed HDD

Abstract In this paper we discuss the technical issues of hydrodynamic bearings (HDB) for hard disk drives (HDD). We also report results of numerical analysis and of experiments aimed at solving the characteristic problems of high-speed HDDs.

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