Wicking mitigation via notches and dimples

A method of mitigating fluid wicking in a chassis of an information handling system cooled by a liquid cooling subassembly housed within the chassis, the method comprising:

• disrupting a flow of fluid within the chassis with at least one notch formed along an edge of a bottom of the chassis, wherein the fluid comprises coolant leaked from the liquid cooling subassembly and wherein the at least one notch increases a distance the fluid traverses to slow wicking of the fluid;
• concentrating at least a portion of the flow of fluid at one or more rises formed in an outer surface of the bottom of the chassis;
• and
• permitting the fluid to drip from regions of the outer surface surrounding the one or more rises to reduce the flow of fluid.

An information handling system, comprising:

• a wicking prevention chassis;
• a liquid-cooling subassembly housed within the wicking prevention chassis;
• one or more processing units housed within the wicking prevention chassis;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled with the one or more processing units via a bus within the wicking prevention chassis,
• wherein the wicking prevention chassis includes:
• at least one notch formed in an edge of a bottom of the chassis, wherein the notch is configured to disrupt a flow of fluid within the chassis caused by leakage from a liquid cooling subassembly within the chassis and to slow wicking of the fluid;
• and
• at least one rise in an outer surface of the bottom of the chassis, wherein the rise is created by dimpling an opposing surface of the bottom of the chassis and wherein the rise is configured to concentrate at least a portion of the flow of fluid in regions of the outer surface surrounding the rise.