Modeling of data center airflow and heat transfer: State of the art and future trends

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 193-225

  Rambo, Jeffrey ^a   Joshi, Yogendra ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; Reduced order models; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

RACK LEVEL COMPACT MODELS; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; THERMAL MODELING; THERMAL MODELING METHODOLOGIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMOANALYSIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247565733     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-006-7007-3     Document Type: Article

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