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Title: Development of the Sandia Cooler

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1121984
Report Number(s):
SAND2013-10712
493255
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Johnson, Terry Alan, Koplow, Jeffrey P., Staats, Wayne Lawrence, Curgus, Dita Brigitte, Leick, Michael Thomas., Matthew, Ned Daniel, Zimmerman, Mark D., Arienti, Marco, Gharagozloo, Patricia E., Hecht, Ethan S., Spencer, Nathan A., Vanness, Justin William., and Gorman, Ryan. Development of the Sandia Cooler. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.2172/1121984.
Johnson, Terry Alan, Koplow, Jeffrey P., Staats, Wayne Lawrence, Curgus, Dita Brigitte, Leick, Michael Thomas., Matthew, Ned Daniel, Zimmerman, Mark D., Arienti, Marco, Gharagozloo, Patricia E., Hecht, Ethan S., Spencer, Nathan A., Vanness, Justin William., & Gorman, Ryan. Development of the Sandia Cooler. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1121984
Johnson, Terry Alan, Koplow, Jeffrey P., Staats, Wayne Lawrence, Curgus, Dita Brigitte, Leick, Michael Thomas., Matthew, Ned Daniel, Zimmerman, Mark D., Arienti, Marco, Gharagozloo, Patricia E., Hecht, Ethan S., Spencer, Nathan A., Vanness, Justin William., and Gorman, Ryan. 2013. "Development of the Sandia Cooler". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1121984. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1121984.
@article{osti_1121984,
title = {Development of the Sandia Cooler},
author = {Johnson, Terry Alan and Koplow, Jeffrey P. and Staats, Wayne Lawrence and Curgus, Dita Brigitte and Leick, Michael Thomas. and Matthew, Ned Daniel and Zimmerman, Mark D. and Arienti, Marco and Gharagozloo, Patricia E. and Hecht, Ethan S. and Spencer, Nathan A. and Vanness, Justin William. and Gorman, Ryan},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.2172/1121984},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1121984}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2013}
}