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Air Flow Management in Raised Floor Data Centers

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In this chapter we introduce the thermal management aspect of air cooled data centers based on thermodynamics. The energy consumption by various cooling components and the influencing factors are discussed with a view towards minimizing the overall energy expenditure.

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India

    Vaibhav K. Arghode

  2. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Yogendra Joshi

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Arghode, V.K., Joshi, Y. (2016). Introduction. In: Air Flow Management in Raised Floor Data Centers. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25892-8_1

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