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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2012
Eric A. Eckberg, Rochester, MN (US);
Howard V. Mahaney, Jr., Cedar Park, TX (US);
William M. Megarity, Roxboro, NC (US);
Roger R. Schmidt, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Tejas Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Scott A. Shurson, Mantorville, MN (US);
Eric A. Eckberg, Rochester, MN (US);
Howard V. Mahaney, Jr., Cedar Park, TX (US);
William M. Megarity, Roxboro, NC (US);
Roger R. Schmidt, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Tejas Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Scott A. Shurson, Mantorville, MN (US);
LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A heat exchanger door and heat exchanger core optimization method are provided. The door resides at an air inlet or outlet side of an electronics rack, and includes an air-to-coolant heat exchanger with a heat exchanger core. The core includes a first coolant channel coupled to a coolant inlet manifold downstream from a second coolant channel, and the first channel has a shorter channel length than the second channel. Further, coolant channels of the core are coupled to provide counter-flow cooling of an airflow passing across the core. The core optimization method determines at least one combination of parameters that optimize for a particular application at least two performance metrics of the heat exchanger. This method includes obtaining performance metrics for boundary condition(s) of possible heat exchanger configurations with different variable parameters to determine a combination of parameters that optimize the performance metrics for the heat exchanger.