Title :
Raised-floor data center: perforated tile flow rates for various tile layouts
Author :
Schmidt, Roger ; Karki, Kailash ; Patankar, Suhas
Author_Institution :
Chief Thermal Archit., IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper summarizes the results of an experimental study of airflow rates through perforated tiles in a raised-floor data center. Flow rates are presented for various configurations of perforated tiles under different scenarios for the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units. The measured airflow rates for selected cases are compared with those given by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program. The two sets of results are in good agreement.
Keywords :
air conditioning; computational fluid dynamics; computer centres; CFD; airflow rates; computational fluid dynamics; computer room air conditioning units; raised floor data center; tile flow rate; tile layouts; Air conditioning; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer aided manufacturing; Cooling; Data engineering; Electronic equipment; Electronic equipment manufacture; Measurement units; Thermal management; Tiles;
Conference_Titel :
Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, 2004. ITHERM '04. The Ninth Intersociety Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8357-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITHERM.2004.1319226
