Simulation of Thermal Distribution and Airflow for Efficient Energy Consumption in a Small Data Centers

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 the heat densities of IT servers leads to a rise in the energy needed to cool them, and constitutes approximately 40% o...

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Main Authors: Jing Ni, Bowen Jin, Bo Zhang, Xiaowei Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-04-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/4/664