Abstract
One of the objectives of an effective air flow management scheme is to minimize hot and cold air mixing. Appropriate arrangement of racks, such as hot-aisle-cold-aisle (HACA) partially meets this requirement. However, due to the tendency of entrainment of surrounding room air by emerging cold air stream from perforated tiles, hot and cold air mixing is very difficult to eliminate in open aisle condition. Use of physical barriers, separating the hot and cold regions shows promise to minimize this problem. In this chapter we will discuss the thermal characteristics of contained cold aisles, and their influence on the energy savings of a data center.
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Arghode, V.K., Joshi, Y. (2016). Cold Aisle Containment. 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_4
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