Multiphysics Modeling Environment simulates batteries, fuel cells.
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COMSOL Multiphysics offers Batteries and Fuel Cells Module to provide tools for setup, simulation, and study of electrochemical batteries and fuel cells. It enables users to investigate influence of different materials, geometric configurations, and operating conditions on their performance. Predefined couplings of electrochemical reactions, flow, heat transfer, and electric fields allow users to model behavior of battery and fuel cell designs using real-world materials and operating conditions.
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New Batteries & Fuel Cells Module for COMSOL Multiphysics Released
The new Batteries & Fuel Cells Module for COMSOL Multiphysics comes with predefined interfaces that speed up design studies. Here, the lithium-ion battery physics interface was used to simulate a battery's discharge-recharge cycle.
BURLINGTON, MA - COMSOL Inc., the developer of the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software, announces the release of the Batteries & Fuel Cells Module for COMSOL Multiphysics modeling and simulation environment. This new, optional expansion module provides a full set of easy-to-use tools for the set-up, simulation, and study of all major electrochemical batteries and fuel cells, including lithium-ion batteries, nickel metal-hydride batteries, solid oxide fuel cells, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells. With the Batteries & Fuel Cells Module engineers, scientists, and researchers can investigate in deep detail the influence of different materials, geometric configurations, and operating conditions on the performance of batteries and fuel cells quickly and accurately.
The Batteries & Fuel Cell Module for COMSOL Multiphysics enables integrators and developers of batteries, fuel cell components, and fuel cell stacks in such industries as transportation, green energy, and consumer electronics to obtain accurate and reliable simulation results quickly. The COMSOL Multiphysics environment is engineered to facilitate the simulation of multiple, coupled physical phenomena, making it an ideal platform for simulating the behavior of batteries and fuel cells where multiple, coupled physical mechanism are ever- present. The Batteries & Fuel Cells Modules extends COMSOL Multiphysics with predefined couplings of electrochemical reactions, flow, heat transfer, and electric fields. Users leverage this powerful combination to quickly set up and model the behavior of their battery and fuel cell designs using real-world materials and operating conditions.
"The new Batteries & Fuel Cells Module is capable of simulating just about any electrochemical process. It provides ready-made interfaces that deliver unprecedented ease of use and speed to model creation and simulation," says Henrik Ekstrom, product technology manager with COMSOL.
"The design of single fuel cells and fuel cell stacks requires an in-depth understanding of the physics inside, including free and porous media flow, species distribution such as hydrogen or oxygen concentration over the electrode or sophisticated tempering concepts," explains Christian Siegel with ZBT Duisburg GmbH, one of the largest institutes in Germany researching fuel cell technology.
At ZBT approximately 100 employees work in application-oriented projects for the establishment of fuel cell technology in areas such as auxiliary power devices and decentralized power generation.
"By using COMSOL Multiphysics we have been able to study these mechanisms in detail and are able to deliver highly efficient membrane fuel cell solutions for systems and applications. The Batteries & Fuel Cells Module speeds up the model building process significantly and lets us focus on designing innovative new solutions for the market faster than ever before."
Physics interfaces speed up electrochemical process simulation
Physics interfaces built into the Batteries & Fuel Cells Module enable engineers and scientists to set up their analyses quickly.
Each interface includes descriptions of the electrochemical reactions and the transport properties that influence the performance of batteries and fuel cells. The described transport phenomena are chemical species transport, charge transport, heat transfer, and fluid flow. Electrode reactions, which are fully coupled to the transport phenomena, provide full descriptions of the electrode kinetics including activation and concentration overpotential.
Batteries & Fuel Cell Module Highlights
- Electrochemistry
- Chemical species transport in free and porous media
- Single-phase, porous media, and combined free and porous media flow
- Heat transfer in fluids, solids, and in porous media
About COMSOL Multiphysics
COMSOL Multiphysics is a software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system. A particular strength is its ability to account for multiphysics phenomena. Optional modules add discipline-specific tools for acoustics, batteries & fuel cells, chemical engineering, earth science, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, MEMS, plasma and structural analysis.
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