Graduation Semester and Year

2016

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

First Advisor

Dereje Agonafer

Second Advisor

Miguel Amaya

Abstract

In IT industries, to keep server rooms and data centers cool is a constant challenge for hardware developers and the cooling solution providers. Air cooling is the most widely used approach for thermal management of servers in data centers from many years. However, the scenario is changing gradually as the computational ability of data center is increasing exponentially. Because of increasing computational ability, the heat generated by the servers is increased in such amount that air cooling is not as efficient as it was before. Hence, alternative cooling system is required. In 1970’s the idea of liquid cooling was introduced. Liquid cooling can be decided in two different parts. First is water cooling and oil cooling. The study in this thesis is based on both the system. Firstly, for warm water cooling, this study presents the optimization of the cold plate cover. By optimizing this design, the efficiency of the cooling system can be improvised. Secondly, in oil immersed cooling, the purpose of the study of these heat sinks is to document the performance characteristic of both the heat sink as it was not studied before for the oil immersed cooling application.

Keywords

Liquid cooling, Heat sink, Oil immersion, Dynamic cold plate, CFD

Disciplines

Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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