Strategies for effective use of exergy-based modeling of data center thermal management systems

Microelectronics Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1023-1029

  McAllister, Sara ^a   Carey, Van P ^a   Shah, Amip ^a   Bash, Cullen ^b   Patel, Chandrakant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Data centers; Exergy; Modeling strategy; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

DATA CENTERS; EXERGY DESTRUCTION; MODELING STRATEGY;

EXERGY;

EID: 44649124233     PISSN: 00262692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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