Simulation for Data Center Cooling Infrastructure

Overview

AI ready data centers are reshaping cooling infrastructure, with the industry moving from traditional air cooling toward hybrid and liquid cooling architectures to support higher rack densities and stricter efficiency targets. This transition introduces new thermal, mechanical, safety, and operational challenges across room and facility scales. This webinar focuses on simulation possibilities beyond rack level, with emphasis on room, plant, and site infrastructure decisions.

At room level, attendees will see what is possible with 3D airflow and thermal analysis to evaluate temperature distribution, hotspot risk, and operational robustness. As cooling architectures evolve, the session will showcase how simulation can assess air based and liquid cooling configurations. Beyond the room, the webinar highlights analysis possibilities for critical cooling infrastructure equipment, including heat exchangers, pumps, and related balance of plant systems. It also covers structural assessment possibilities for racks and cooling equipment under operating and handling conditions.

From a safety and operations perspective, the session includes leakage scenarios, smoke propagation studies, and acoustic and environmental evaluations. At system and facility scale, attendees will see how simulation can represent liquid cooling loops and integrated facility behavior, including CDU based architectures, to evaluate performance, resilience, and expansion readiness before deployment. The webinar will also highlight how OMNIVERSE connected workflows, DSX collaboration environments, and SimReady assets can accelerate digital twin adoption, improve cross team alignment, and support faster scenario evaluation for data center cooling programs.

What Attendees Will Learn

• The full range of room to facility cooling analyses possible for modern data centers 
• What airflow, thermal distribution, and hotspot risk studies can reveal at room scale 
• What infrastructure performance assessments can cover across heat exchangers, cooling towers, pumps, and supporting systems 
• How structural, acoustic, and environmental analyses can strengthen robust and compliant designs 
• How safety scenarios such as leakage events and smoke propagation can be evaluated virtually 
• How system and facility level simulations can inform capacity planning, resilience, and operational readiness 
• How OMNIVERSE, DSX, and SimReady assets can help scale digital twin workflows, improve stakeholder communication, and speed up design to operations decision cycles

Who Should Attend

• Thermal, CFD, and structural analysts, to connect room level insights with facility level decision making 
• Data center facility engineers and architects, to evaluate and scale cooling infrastructure beyond rack level 
• Cooling infrastructure OEM engineering teams, to assess equipment and system behavior before deployment 
• Data center operations and reliability teams, to improve uptime, safety planning, and risk reduction 
• Engineering consultants and EPC partners, to support customer programs with faster and stronger technical decision support

Speaker

• Sreenivas Viyyuri - Applications Engineering Principal Engineer, Ansys part of Synopsys