摘要：Indirect liquid cooling technique using the water‐cooled plate is an important way to cool the server. The manifold is the key component to connect the water‐cooled plates of servers. The flow distribution inside is directly related to the energy consumption of the cooling system. This paper proposed an optimization method for designing the manifold to obtain the uniform flow for each branch. Furthermore, to calculate the diameter distribution of the manifold, the pressure distribution model of the flow network is developed by applying the principle of equal pressure drops for each branch. Subsequently, the proposed model is validated by the finite element method under the turbulence condition. Investigations of the effects of static pressure variation coefficient, local loss, and frictional loss on the accuracy of proposed method reveal that the coefficient of variation in static pressure has a significant influence and the local loss has a slight effect. In addition, more precise calculations of the frictional loss can improve the accuracy of this method.
