.... The calculated flying heights agree with those measured in commercial hard disk drives. To calculate the air bearing pressure for RH > 0 , consider a control volume of fixed mass (Fig. 1 ). This control volume flows into the air bearing and is compressed in response to the increasing pressure...

.... The simulated flying height loss due to a discrete-track medium coincides well with the measured data, whereas the average-estimation method overestimates flying height loss. Among the characteristics of a slider flying over the surface of a discrete-track medium that were studied are the flying attitude...