Showing papers by "Suhas V. Patankar published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the distribution of airflow and the resulting cooling in a data center and explore a number of ways of controlling the airflow distribution and different strategies for doing this are considered.
Abstract: This paper deals with the distribution of airflow and the resulting cooling in a data center. First, the cooling challenge is described and the concept of a raised-floor data center is introduced. In this arrangement, cooling air is supplied through perforated tiles. The flow rates of the cooling air must meet the cooling requirements of the computer servers placed next to the tiles. These airflow rates are governed primarily by the pressure distribution under the raised floor. Thus, the key to modifying the flow rates is to influence the fiow field in the under-floor plenum. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to provide insight into various factors affecting the airflow distribution and the corresponding cooling. A number of ways of controlling the airflow distribution are explored. Then attention is turned to the above-floor space, where the focus is on preventing the hot air from entering the inlets of computer serves. Different strategies for doing this are considered. The paper includes a number of comparisons of measurements with the results of CFD simulations.
174 citations
TL;DR: A review of the heat transfer literature published in 2005 can be found in this article, where the authors restrict themselves to papers published in English through a peer-review process, with selected translations from journals published in other languages.
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TL;DR: A review of heat transfer literature published in 2004 in English language, including some translations of foreign language papers, is presented in this paper, where papers are grouped into subject-oriented sections and further divided into sub-fields.
56 citations
01 Nov 2010
3 citations