Development of the Sandia Cooler

Technical Report · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1121984· OSTI ID:1121984

Johnson, Terry Alan ^[1]; Koplow, Jeffrey P. ^[1]; Staats, Wayne Lawrence ^[1]; Curgus, Dita Brigitte ^[1]; Leick, Michael Thomas. ^[1]; Matthew, Ned Daniel ^[1]; Zimmerman, Mark D. ^[1]; Arienti, Marco ^[1]; Gharagozloo, Patricia E. ^[1]; Hecht, Ethan S. ^[1]; Spencer, Nathan A. ^[1]; Vanness, Justin William. ^[1]; Gorman, Ryan ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

This report describes an FY13 effort to develop the latest version of the Sandia Cooler, a breakthrough technology for air-cooled heat exchangers that was developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The project was focused on fabrication, assembly and demonstration of ten prototype systems for the cooling of high power density electronics, specifically high performance desktop computers (CPUs). In addition, computational simulation and experimentation was carried out to fully understand the performance characteristics of each of the key design aspects. This work culminated in a parameter and scaling study that now provides a design framework, including a number of design and analysis tools, for Sandia Cooler development for applications beyond CPU cooling.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1121984
• Report Number(s): SAND2013--10712; 493255
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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