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Development of the Sandia Cooler

Johnson, Terry A.; Hecht, Ethan S.; Spencer, Nathan S.; Vanness, Justin W.; Gorman, Ryan G.; Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Staats, Wayne L.; Curgus, Dita B.; Leick, Michael T.; Matthew, Ned D.; Zimmerman, Mark D.; Arienti, Marco A.; Gharagozloo, Patricia E.

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.