Patent Document ID: 20130166258
Application ID: 13644234
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for modeling a data center, comprising the steps of: obtaining three-dimensional thermal distribution and air flow measurements made in the data center using a mobile off-line surveying system; creating a temperature and air flow model for the data center using the thermal distribution and air flow measurements, wherein the temperature and air flow model created is a Laplacian model having separate temperature and air flow fields with the air flow field being represented by ∇ 2 φ=0, wherein φ is flow potential; setting an actual relative value for the flow potential somewhere in the data center; using the temperature and air flow model to make thermal distribution and air flow predictions of the data center; and comparing the thermal distribution and air flow predictions with the thermal distribution and air flow measurements made using the mobile off-line surveying system to produce a validated model for the data center.