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Simulation of Flow Field and Particle Trajectories in Hard Disk Drive Enclosures
Overview The airflow field and particle trajectories inside Hard Disk Drive (HDD) are investigated in this study using commercial software Fluent and Gambit. Three-dimensional grids inside the HDD configuration are built using Gambit taking into account all the components and their geometric details. The airflow field inside HDD is simulated using three incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for various disk rotational speeds. Based on the computed steady airflow patterns, particle trajectories are computed using routines available in Fluent as well as special particle trajectory functions defined by the user via the user-defined functions. Particles of different sizes and materials are injected at various locations in the computed flow field and the corresponding particle trajectories are studied.
| Publisher | Nanyang Technological University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | November 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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