The impact of air flow leakage on server inlet air temperature in a raised floor data center

2008 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1153-1160

  Hamann, Hendrik ^a   Iyengar, Madhusudan ^b   O'Boyle, Martin ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling; Data center; Energy efficiency; Leakage flow; Numerical modeling; Raised floor; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; FORMING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

COOLING; DATA CENTER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LEAKAGE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELING; RAISED FLOOR; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 50949131146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2008.4544391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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