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A Review on efficient thermal management of air- and liquid-cooled data centers: From chip to the cooling system
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In this article, the state-of-the-art of multi-level thermal management techniques for both air- and liquid-cooled data centers is reviewed. But the main focus is on the sources of inefficiencies and the improvement methods with their configuration features and performances at each level.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2017-11-01. It has received 272 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Free cooling & Water cooling.read more
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Thermal management and temperature uniformity enhancement of electronic devices by micro heat sinks: A review
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and shortcomings of thermal enhancement technologies in different structural micro heat sinks are presented, and the barriers and challenges for the developments of thermal management of electronic devices by micro heat sink are discussed, and future directions of the research topic are provided.
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Highly Thermoconductive, Thermostable, and Super-Flexible Film by Engineering 1D Rigid Rod-Like Aramid Nanofiber/2D Boron Nitride Nanosheets.
TL;DR: High thermoconductive and thermostable polymer nanocomposite films prepared by engineering 1D aramid nanofiber with worm-like microscopic morphologies into rigid rod-like structures with 2D boron nitride nanosheets (BNNS) enable effective thermal management for microelectrodes operating at temperatures beyond 200 °C.
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A review of data centers as prosumers in district energy systems: Renewable energy integration and waste heat reuse for district heating
Pei Huang,Benedetta Copertaro,Xingxing Zhang,Jingchun Shen,Isabelle Löfgren,Mats Rönnelid,Jan Fahlen,Dan Andersson,Mikael Svanfeldt +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a data center consumption model for district energy systems, where data centers consume a large amount of electricity to ensure the Information Technologies (IT) facilities, ancillary power providers, and data center servers.
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Review of heat transfer enhancement techniques for single phase flows
TL;DR: Key learning data for design optimization enabled by additive manufacturing and machine learning algorithms is developed and summarized, helping to inform these next-generation heat exchanger design methodologies for a plethora of modern applications such as electrification of vehicles, computing, and classical industries.
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Effect of a micro heat sink geometric design on thermo-hydraulic performance: A review
TL;DR: The main aims of this study are to cover the research gap in a review of cross-section impact on the thermo-hydraulic performance of microchannel heat sinks and the commercialized heat sinks for electronics cooling were discussed which has not been reported before.
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