Head-media interaction in magnetic recording (Q5937334)

The authors study a boundary value problem for a coupled system of two nonautonomous ordinary differential equations representing a model for tape-head interaction in magnetic recording. A theorem for the existence of a smooth solution when the magnetic head has a discontinuous profile is proven. For clarity, the case of twice continuously differentiable profiles is first discussed by using a method of sub- and super-solutions and Schauder's fixed-point theorem. Finally, the discussion is generalized to the discontinuous profile case.