...Xujian Cui; Siqi Chen; Mi Xiao; Wei Li Battery thermal management system (BTMS) has significant impacts on the performance of electric vehicles (EVs). In this research, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) coupled multi-objective optimization framework is proposed to improve the thermal performance...

... for different patterns. Because of the more complex phenomena that occur at the cathode side, as first approximation it was stated to figure calculations on different pattern and geometries only for the air surface. The values resulted from the calculus were compared with the results obtained from a CFD...

.... This work presents results of a sensibility study performed for different membrane thermal conductivities, analyzing the influence of this parameter on the main cell response variables. The work has been performed with the aid of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model developed for a 50 cm 2 fuel cell...

... cell performance is also studied. The results revealed that the MPL can highly increase the maximum power of a PEMFC. polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell two-phase flow multiphase mixture model porous media CFD Energy crisis and environmental pollution caused by fossil fuels have...

...Mojtaba Parvizi Omran; Mousa Farhadi; Kurosh Sedighi A 3D, single phase steady-state model has been developed for liquid feed direct methanol fuel cell. The model is implemented into the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package FLUENT ® v6.2, with its user-defined functions...

.... Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be helpful to predict fuel-cell performance before a cell is actually built and tested. However, to perform a CFD simulation using a three-dimensional model of an entire fuel-cell stack can require a considerable amount of time and multiprocessor computing capability...

...William J. Sembler; Sunil Kumar To determine the effects of various parameters on the performance of a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), a series of simulations was performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The first step in this process was to create a three-dimensional CFD model...

... fluid dynamics (CFD) model to evaluate the potential effectiveness of fuel recycling in mitigating carbon deposits in an internal reforming SOFC fed with weakly humidified methane (S:Cs from 0.1 to 1), where significant risks of coking would exist. The test configuration was based on that previously...

... cells stainless steel solid oxide fuel cell seal-less stack CFD Compared with incumbent technologies, perhaps the most important advantage that fuel cells offer is the ability to convert chemical energy to electrical energy at substantially high efficiency levels ( 1 ). In addition...

... system is analyzed to properly address the influence of operating conditions on power density and flooding via a comprehensive parametric analysis. 07 03 2008 13 06 2008 05 03 2009 computational fluid dynamics proton exchange membrane fuel cells fuel cell design PEFC CFD...

... flow pattern gas diffusion layer (GDL) CFD FLUENT Low operating temperature and zero/low emissions have made proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells become the most promising power source of the future, as stated by Larminie and Dicks ( 1 ). However, to achieve commercialization...