This story was originally published on Cadence.com.

Students at Baylor University leveraged Cadence Reality DC Design to simulate a data center mechanical yard layout with air-cooled chillers.

With guidance from Olsson as industry advisors, they were able to use Cadence's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool to establish industry guidance for configuring hyperscale heat rejection for data centers.

The analysis reviewed the impact of multiple variables, including wind speed and direction, chiller spacing and orientation, and more, to develop an understanding of the relative importance of each variable to aid in the design of reliable and efficient equipment layouts.