Mh. Wahl et Fe. Talke, NUMERICAL-SIMULATION OF THE STEADY-STATE FLYING CHARACTERISTICS OF A 50-PERCENT SLIDER WITH SURFACE TEXTURE, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(6), 1994, pp. 4122-4124
The steady state flying characteristics of a 50 % taper-flat two-rail
slider with discrete surface texture features have been numerically si
mulated using finite elements. Various shapes and patterns of surface
texture features are considered. This investigation analyzes the depen
dence of flying height and pitch angle on the height and number of the
surface texture features and on the linear velocity. The results sugg
est that the surface texture does not significantly change the flying
behavior at nominal flying heights but the influence of surface textur
e becomes more important at low spacings.