Patent Document ID: 10083259
Application ID: 14723700
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A data center comprising: an air-conditioning unit, and one or more electronics racks; and a computer system comprising: a memory; and a processor in communications with the memory, wherein the computer system performs a method, the method comprising: producing a data center layout optimized for data center energy efficiency, the data center being a bounded domain, and the producing comprising: performing computational fluid dynamics modeling of the bounded domain to produce a model of the bounded domain, the performing including: solving iteratively a computational fluid dynamics model of the bounded domain using mass flow boundary conditions that are specified, the solving comprising automatically adjusting the mass flow boundary conditions for at least one iteration of the solving, the automatically adjusting comprising mass balancing flows at a boundary of the bounded domain, wherein the mass balancing comprises applying different corrections to mass in-flows across the boundary into the bounded domain compared with mass out-flows across the boundary from the bounded domain; and the producing including using the model in providing the data center layout optimized for energy efficiency of the data center, wherein the data center is configured based on the data center layout.