...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...

... plates was performed in different steps. First, the necessity to make an esteem of the dynamics that happen inside the feeding channels led to perform analytical calculations. The values found were cross-checked performing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation; finally, it was defined the best...

.... 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...

... , 152 ( 12 ), pp. A2427 – A2440 . 10.1149/1.2116607 Janardhanan , V. M. , and Deutschmann , O. , 2006 , “ CFD Analysis of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell With Internal Reforming: Coupled Interactions of Transport, Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrochemical Processes ,” J. Power Sources...

.... , Miyazawa , T. , Murakami , N. , Hosoi , K. , Nishiwaki , F. , and Inagaki , T. , 2006 , “ A Unique Seal-Less Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack and Its CFD Analysis ,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology , Irvine, CA, June 19–21...

... 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...

... challenge for a high-performance fuel cell design and optimization. water management air-water flow pattern gas diffusion layer (GDL) CFD FLUENT cathodes channel flow computational fluid dynamics diffusion flow through porous media life testing proton exchange membrane fuel cells...