Exergy analysis of data center thermal management systems

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Shah, Amip J ^a   Carey, Van P ^a,b   Bash, Cullen E ^b   Patel, Chandrakant D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; Electronics cooling; Energy efficiency; Exergy; Second law analysis; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ELECTRONIC COOLING; EXERGY ANALYSIS; SECOND-LAW ANALYSIS;

EXERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EID: 41649090202     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2787024     Document Type: Article

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