Simulation of the Airflow Characteristic inside a Hard Disk Drive by Applying a Computational Fluid Dynamics Software
Now-a-days, numbers of simulation software are
being used all over the world to solve Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) related problems. In this present study, a
commercial CFD simulation software namely STAR-CCM+ is
applied to analyze the airflow characteristics inside a 2.5" hard
disk drive. Each step of the software is described adequately to
obtain the output and the data are verified with the theories to
justify the robustness of the simulation outcome. This study
gives an insight about the accuracy level of the CFD
simulation software to compute CFD related problems
although it largely depends upon the computer speed. Also
this study will open avenues for further research.
[1] John D. Anderson Jr., Jooris Degroote Gerad Degrez, Erik Dick, Roger
Grundmann, and Jan Vierendeels, "Computional Fluid Dynamics: An
Introduction," Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
[2] Paul Deed, and Paul Edmondson, "What is Bernoulli's Equation and Its
Applications," www.hubpages.com: http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-
Bernoullis-Equation-and-its-applications, Retrieved April 18, 2010.
[3] CD-adapco, "STAR-CCM+ version 4.02.007user's guide,Singapore,"
Singapore: CD-adapco,2009.
[4] William Ding, and Manish Kumar," Hard disk drives recirculation filter
design by simulating particle and operation parameters effects on
particle trajectories," Bloomington, Donaldson Co. Inc, 2007.
[5] Hanbing Song, Damodaran Murali, and Quock Y. Ng, "Simualtion of
flow field and particle trajectories in hard disk drive enclosures,"
Massachusetts: DSpace@MIT, 2004.
[1] John D. Anderson Jr., Jooris Degroote Gerad Degrez, Erik Dick, Roger
Grundmann, and Jan Vierendeels, "Computional Fluid Dynamics: An
Introduction," Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
[2] Paul Deed, and Paul Edmondson, "What is Bernoulli's Equation and Its
Applications," www.hubpages.com: http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-
Bernoullis-Equation-and-its-applications, Retrieved April 18, 2010.
[3] CD-adapco, "STAR-CCM+ version 4.02.007user's guide,Singapore,"
Singapore: CD-adapco,2009.
[4] William Ding, and Manish Kumar," Hard disk drives recirculation filter
design by simulating particle and operation parameters effects on
particle trajectories," Bloomington, Donaldson Co. Inc, 2007.
[5] Hanbing Song, Damodaran Murali, and Quock Y. Ng, "Simualtion of
flow field and particle trajectories in hard disk drive enclosures,"
Massachusetts: DSpace@MIT, 2004.
@article{"International Journal of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Sciences:62615", author = "Chanchal Saha and Huynh Trung Luong and M. H. Aziz and Tharinan Rattanalert", title = "Simulation of the Airflow Characteristic inside a Hard Disk Drive by Applying a Computational Fluid Dynamics Software", abstract = "Now-a-days, numbers of simulation software are
being used all over the world to solve Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) related problems. In this present study, a
commercial CFD simulation software namely STAR-CCM+ is
applied to analyze the airflow characteristics inside a 2.5" hard
disk drive. Each step of the software is described adequately to
obtain the output and the data are verified with the theories to
justify the robustness of the simulation outcome. This study
gives an insight about the accuracy level of the CFD
simulation software to compute CFD related problems
although it largely depends upon the computer speed. Also
this study will open avenues for further research.", keywords = "Computational fluid dynamics, Hard disk drive,Meshing, Recirculation filter, and Filter physics parameter.", volume = "4", number = "12", pages = "1855-6", }