Polymer electrolyte fuel cells with porous materials as fluid distributors and comparisons with tranditional channeled systems

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 410-418

  Senn, S M ^a   Poulikakos, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational; Energy conversion; Fuel cells; Modeling; Porous media

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; HYDROGEN FUELS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYELECTROLYTES; POROUS MATERIALS;

ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; FLOW DISTRIBUTIONS;

FUEL CELLS;

CHANNEL FLOW; ELECTROLYTE; FUEL CELL; MODELING; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 3142696247     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1738424     Document Type: Article

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