ISSN Online: 2379-1748
ISBN Flash Drive: 978-1-56700-431-1
ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-430-4
First Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
REDUCED ORDER MODELING OF A DATA CENTER WITH MULTIPARAMETERS IN A 3D APPROACH
要約
Energy consumption and thermal management have become key challenges in the design of large-scale data
centers, where perforated tiles are used together with cold and hot aisles configuration to improve thermal
management. Although full-field simulations using computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
(CFD/HT) tools can be applied to predict the flow and temperature fields inside data centers, their running
time remain the biggest challenge to most modelers. In this paper, a reduced order modeling method is used
to drastically reduce the running time (up to 600 times faster) while still acceptably preserving the accuracy
of the model. The results obtained from Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) method are in good agreement with the results obtained from CFD/HT model simulation with a mean temperature difference as low as 0.183°C. In addition, a 3D POD approach has also been proposed to obtain the entire temperature profiles of the data center model.