Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Datacentre efficiency becomes increasingly important as demand for IT infrastructure grows. This thesis presents detailed Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses of flow and heat transfer within typical raised floor datacentres. Compared with previous studies, greater understanding of the unsteady flo...
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Curtin University
2018
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| author | Aljohani, Faraj Jaber R |
| author_facet | Aljohani, Faraj Jaber R |
| author_sort | Aljohani, Faraj Jaber R |
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| description | Datacentre efficiency becomes increasingly important as demand for IT infrastructure grows. This thesis presents detailed Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses of flow and heat transfer within typical raised floor datacentres. Compared with previous studies, greater understanding of the unsteady flow and heat transfer in datacentres resulted from using Scale-Adaptive turbulence modelling instead of a RANS approach. This led to a novel rack-level sub-cooler design, which was shown to allow higher volumetric heat generation rates within datacentres. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| publishDate | 2018 |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-752272021-04-09T06:28:34Z Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics Aljohani, Faraj Jaber R Datacentre efficiency becomes increasingly important as demand for IT infrastructure grows. This thesis presents detailed Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses of flow and heat transfer within typical raised floor datacentres. Compared with previous studies, greater understanding of the unsteady flow and heat transfer in datacentres resulted from using Scale-Adaptive turbulence modelling instead of a RANS approach. This led to a novel rack-level sub-cooler design, which was shown to allow higher volumetric heat generation rates within datacentres. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75227 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Aljohani, Faraj Jaber R Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title | Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title_full | Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title_fullStr | Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title_short | Improving Cooling Effectiveness in Air-Cooled Data Centres: Analysis and Assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| title_sort | improving cooling effectiveness in air-cooled data centres: analysis and assessment using computational fluid dynamics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75227 |