%0 Journal Article %A Friedman, Avner %A Tello, J. Ignacio %T Head Media Interaction in Magnetic Recording %D 2001 %@ 0022-0396 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57007 %X The tape head interaction in magnetic recording is modelled by a coupled system of a second order differential equation for the pressure and a fourth-order differential equation for the tape deflection. There is also the constraint that the spacing between the head and tape remains positive. In this paper, we study the stationary one-dimensional case and establish the existence of a smooth solution %~