Significance levels of factors for different airflow management configurations of data centers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 376 HTD, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-106

  Shrivastava, Saurabh ^a   Sammakia, Bahgat ^a   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^b   Schmidt, Roger ^b  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Application of ANOVA (analysis of variance); Data center airflow types; Data center thermal management; Statistical significance level study

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION OF ANOVA (ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE); DATA CENTER AIRFLOW TYPES; DATA CENTER THERMAL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL STUDY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33645681844     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2005-81607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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