Air flow measurement and management for improving cooling and energy efficiency in raised-floor data centers: A survey

J Wan, X Gui, S Kasahara, Y Zhang, R Zhang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the rapid growth in both data center power density and scale poses great
challenges to the cooling system. On one hand, the data center operators try to over …

On the fast prediction of the aerodynamic performance of electronics cooling fans considering the effect of tip clearance

W Zhao, S Wasala, T Persoons - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study aims to complete and validate a recently developed reduced-order model for the
fast prediction of aerodynamic performance () curve of electronics cooling fans, taking into …

Simulation of thermal distribution and airflow for efficient energy consumption in a small data centers

J Ni, B **, B Zhang, X Wang - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Data centers have become ubiquitous in the last few years in an attempt to keep pace with
the processing and storage needs of the Internet and cloud computing. The steady growth in …

Degradation of fan performance in cooling electronics: experimental investigation and evaluating numerical techniques

YM Manaserh, MI Tradat, CH Hoang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reports on the essential forced air-cooled electronics issue of fan performance
deterioration caused by the presence of obstructions inside Information Technology …

Performance of a rack mountable cooling unit in an IT server enclosure

H Moazamigoodarzi, S Pal, D Down… - Thermal Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Almost thirty percent of the power consumption in a data center (DC) is attributable to the
cooling of IT equipment (ITE). This offers opportunities to reduce a DC's energy budget by …

Effect of raised floor height on different arrangement of under-floor air distribution performance in data center

M Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Hu, Y Geng, H Huang… - Procedia Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In the more and more expanding and complicated data center, requirements on air
conditioning system and the air distribution arrangement are getting higher and higher. One …

Dynamic thermal characterization of raised floor plenum data centers: Experiments and CFD

Y Fulpagare, A Bhargav, Y Joshi - Journal of Building Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
World over, power consumption by “server farms” or data centers is a growing concern. With
time dependent job arrival rates at the servers, the power dissipation, and concomitantly the …

Impact of tile design on the thermal performance of open and enclosed aisles

S Khalili, MI Tradat, K Nemati… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In raised floor data centers, tiles with high open area ratio or complex understructure are
used to fulfill the demand of today's high-density computing. Using more open tiles reduces …

Comprehensive energy and economic assessment of CRAH bypass method in air-cooled data centers

HS Erden - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022 - Elsevier
The computer room air handling (CRAH) bypass (BP) method is a method to reduce the fan
energy consumption in data centers. To provide a fraction of the server airflow, CRAH BP …

Airflow management using active air dampers in presence of a dynamic workload in data centers

S Khalili, G Mohsenian, A Desu… - 2019 35th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dynamic nature of today's data centers requires active monitoring and holistic
management of all aspects of the facility, from the applications to the air conditioning. The …