Thermal performance metrics for arranging forced air cooled servers in a data processing cabinet

Journal of Electronic Packaging

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 452-459

  Rambo, Jeffrey ^a   Joshi, Yogendra ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA PROCESSING; HEAT TRANSFER;

AIR COOLED SERVERS; POWER DISSIPATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 29544435716     PISSN: 10437398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2056575     Document Type: Article

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