Flow Viz... Re: Fwd: Re: [Beowulf] Earthquakes and raised floors...

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Fri Jan 20 00:53:30 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:30 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:56 -0800, Jim Lux wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The traditional approach is using some form of smoke stream to visualize 
> > the air flow. Historically, one would use a bit of TiCl4, which combines 
> > with atmospheric moisture to create TiO2 as a very dense fine 
> > particulate.  The problem is that it also makes HCl, which is corrosive.
> There is a company which does CFD calculations of heat flows in computer
> rooms.

The company I was thinking of was British,
but from today's HPCwire:
http://www.coolsimaudit.com/


Fluent are running their code to simulate computer room airflow
monitoring.





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