Abstract: Cold aisle containment is used in air cooled data centers to minimize direct mixing between cold and hot air. Here, we present room level air flow field investigation for open, partially and fully contained cold aisles. ...

Abstract: Raised floor data centers supply cold air from a pressurized plenum to the server racks through perforated floor tiles. Hence, the design of an efficient air delivery scheme requires better understanding of the flow features, ...

Abstract: Presently, air cooling is the most common method of thermal management in data centers. In a data center, multiple servers are housed in a rack, and the racks are arranged in rows to allow cold air entry from the front ...

Abstract: Generally, porous jump (PJ) model is used for rapid air flow simulations (without resolving the tile pore structure) through perforated floor tiles in data centers. The PJ model only specifies a step pressure loss across ...

Abstract: The data center industry has experienced significant growth over the last decade, mainly due to the increased use of the internet for our day to day activities such as ecommerce, social media, video streaming, and healthcare. ...

Abstract: Cold aisle containment is used in raised floor, air cooled data centers to minimize direct mixing between the supplied cold air and the hot air exiting from the servers. The objective of such a system is to minimize the ...

Abstract: In a raised floor data center, cold air from a pressurized subfloor plenum reaches the data center room space through perforated floor tiles. Presently, commercial tool “Flow Hood” is used to measure the tile air flow rate. ...

Abstract: Effective air flow distribution through perforated tiles is required to efficiently cool servers in a raised floor data center. We present detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of air flow through a perforated ...