Cooling using complimentary tapered plenums
Abstract
Where a fluid cooling medium cools a plurality of heat-producing devices arranged in a row along a generalized coordinate direction, with a space between each adjacent pair of devices, each space may have a partition that defines a boundary between a first plenum and a second plenum. The first plenum carries cooling medium across an entrance and thence into a first heat-producing device located on a first side of the partition facing the first plenum. The second plenum carries cooling medium away from a second heat-producing device located on a second side of the partition facing the second plenum and thence across an exit. The partition is disposed so that the first plenum becomes smaller in cross-sectional area as distance increases from the entrance, and the second plenum becomes larger in cross sectional area as distance decreases toward the exit.
- Inventors:
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- Pleasantville, NY
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- International Business Machines (IBM)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 940766
- Patent Number(s):
- 7,085,133
- Application Number:
- 10/616,745
- Assignee:
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
Citation Formats
Hall, Shawn Anthony. Cooling using complimentary tapered plenums. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web.
Hall, Shawn Anthony. Cooling using complimentary tapered plenums. United States.
Hall, Shawn Anthony. 2006.
"Cooling using complimentary tapered plenums". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/940766.
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