CFD for Data Centers: Driving Down Cost and Improving Ease of Use
The growing adoption of smartphones, PCs and tablets is increasing demands on data center processing. For every handheld device attached to the cloud, a data center somewhere is processing the information. The resulting growth in data center demand is expected to continue to rise at the rate of 14% per year, according Tier 1 Research.* To compete in this market, data center designers and operators are squeezing the most out of the energy envelope. This is especially important to colocation providers who compete on the basis of operational overhead with other providers in their market. If they can deliver IT processing capacity at lower cost, they gain a distinct competitive advantage. Over the past several years, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling has proven to be a reliable method for optimizing the energy efficiency of the data center as well as accurately predicting the failure-mode conditions associated with cooling system failure.
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