New Containment and Pressure-Scaling Features

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Check out the new features just released in EcoStruxure IT Advisor CFD!...

Containment:

• (Unlimited-version users only). You can now specify leakage in terms of a "% open area". Previously, ITA CFD idealized all leakage as taking place "through the IT Racks" as they typically represent the primary leakage paths. Now you can add additional leakage uniformly distributed over the surfaces of the Containment. Of course, you can (still) also use Porous Plates (coincident with faces of the Containment) to explicitly model specific areas of leakage, e.g., where the containment meets the tops of the racks.
• After "Analyzing" the Containment hover-over menu now provides lots of great information which helps you understand precisely where all of the airflow is going as well as providing a summary of pressure inside the containment.

Pressure Scaling:

• ITA CFD now automatically scales the pressure in all parts of the whitespace so that the pressure in the main room area is zero on average. This convention is consistent with how we normally make pressure measurements in actual data centers for testing, cooler-control, etc. We also retained the manual "Pressure Offset" if you wish to further scale pressures up or down by any amount.
• While this feature seems modest or even obvious, we're not aware of it in any other CFD tool and it is one of those things that just "feels right".