Design, manufacturing, and performance of PEM fuel cell metallic bipolar plates

Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Li, Maochun ^a   Zhang, Lianhong ^a   Wang, Shuxin ^a   Hu, S Jack ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar plate; Computation fluid dynamics; FEA; PEM fuel cells (PEMFC); Stamping forming; Structure design

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GAS FUELS; SERPENTINE;

COMPUTATIONAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANODE MODEL; METALLIC BIPOLAR PLATES; METALLIC THIN SHEET BIPOLAR PLATE;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 40749106988     PISSN: 1550624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2784284     Document Type: Article

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