The Effect of a Hot-wire Supporter on the Flow Between Corotating Disks in Shroud

밀폐된 동시회전 디스크 유동장에 대한 열선 지지대의 영향

  • 공대위 (연세대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 주원구 (연세대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2002.08.01

Abstract

Hard disk drived (HDD) in computer are used extensively as data storage capacity. The trend in the computer industry to produce smaller disk drives rotating at higher speeds requires an improved understanding of fluid motion in the space between disks. The distribution of pressure disturbance on disks has relation to flow structure. To investigate the flow structure, time-resolved hot-wire measurements of the circumferential velocity component were obtained for the flow between the center pair of four disks of common radius $R_2$ coretating at angular velocity ${\Omega}$ in a fixed cylindrical enclosure. Hot-wire supporter acts as an obstruction in this case. The effects of rotating speed and size of hot-wire supporter diameter between disks on the flow driven by disks were investigated. Velocity spectra at the fixed space were measured to obtain the structure of inner and outer region in flow field.

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