Graduation Semester and Year
2015
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Dereje Agonafer
Abstract
A Modular Data Center (MDC) is a portable method of deploying a data center’s capacity. As an alternative to the traditional data center, an MDC can be placed anywhere data capacity is required. But this comes at the cost of making the MDC operable at any desired location with the environmental factors such as earthquakes and heavy winds. This study focuses on mitigating high-speed wind loading on the MDCs by designing a wind fence to reduce wind speed. Although wind fences are used in many agricultural and farming practices, their usage pertaining to MDCs is very limited. The challenge is to reduce wind speed from 100 mph to 10 mph. This has been achieved by iteratively designing and analyzing a wind fence using CFD simulations to come up with a few wind fence options that have defined properties such as height, perforation and location (distance from the inlet of MDC) of the wind fence.
Keywords
Modular data center, Wind fence, Windbreaker, Windbreak, Wind loading
Disciplines
Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Gorrepati, Devi Prasad, "CFD BASED DESIGN AND MODELLING OF WIND FENCE TO MITIGATE HIGH-SPEED WIND LOADING ON A MODULAR DATA CENTER" (2015). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 906.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/906
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington