Experimental-numerical comparison for a high-density data center: Hot spot heat fluxes in excess of 500 W/FT2

Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems -Proceedings of the Intersociety Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 402-411

  Shrivastava, Saurabh K ^a,d,e   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^b   Sammakia, Bahgat G ^c   Schmidt, Roger ^b   VanGilder, James W ^a  

^a American Power Conversion Corporation   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

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

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e American Power Conversion   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling; Data center; Experimental measurement; Numerical validation; Raised floor

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTER; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL VALIDATION; RAISED FLOOR;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SERVERS;

EID: 33845569934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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