Email: david@talkelab.ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-3175
Fax: 858-534-2720
Address: University of California, San Diego
Mail Code #0401
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA, 92093-0401
 

Biography of Jiadong (David) Zhang

Jiadong(David) was born in 1967 in Shannxi, China . He received his M.S. and B.S. in Dept. of Thermal engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing China in Jun. 1992 and Jun. 1985. Jiadong entered Univ. of California, San Diego(UCSD) in Fall, 1998. At present, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical Engineering) at the CMRR at UCSD.

David's research field is fluid mechanics of the head/disk interface. Currently his research interest includes slider air bearing simulation, design, and optimization. The flying height sensitivity of pico and femto sliders on air bearing contour design, operating conditions and manufacturing tolerances was studied numerically using a Monte Carlo analysis. In the study of optimization of slider air bearing contour, the genetic algorithm and the subregion approach are implemented with a finite element based air bearing simulator. Optimization results obtained for the designs with the target flying heights of 7nm, 5nm and 3.5nm. Currently research work includes slider dynamics and optimization.




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Last updated on Januari 24th, 2009