Modeling Hierarchical Thermal Transport in Electronic Systems
Amip J. Shah, Rocky Shih, Cullen E. Bash, Niru Kumari · 10th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference · 2010
Electronic systems have an inherent hierarchy due to the underlying architecture that governs the processing, transmission, and storage of data. In the present work, we leverage this hierarchy to develop an approach that enables rapid optimization of the thermal architecture of multi-scale electronic systems. We demonstrate the approach for the case of data centers, which contain a hierarchy that extends from discrete electronic components such as microprocessors and memory to electronic systems such as computer servers and ultimately infrastructures such as racks and data centers.