Real-time prediction of rack-cooling performance

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 112 PART 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 151-162

  Vangilder, James W ^a,b   Shrivastava, Saurabh K ^a,c,d   Rahai, Hamid ^e   Kmankari, Kishor ^f  

^a ASHRAE ^*

^b American Power Conversion Corporation   (United States)

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

^d American Power Conversion   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW PATTERNS; RACK COOLING PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME PREDICTION; SUPERPOSITION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750337186     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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