Multimodal mass transfer in solid-oxide fuel-cells

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1668-1677

  Garcia Camprubi M ^a   Sanchez Insa A ^a   Fueyo, N ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy utilization; Mass transfer; Mathematical modeling; Numerical analysis; Porous media; Solid oxide fuel cell

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION PHENOMENA; DUSTY GAS MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD OPERATION; FINITE-VOLUME; IN-CHANNELS; KNUDSEN DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MULTI-MODAL; MULTICOMPONENT GAS-MIXTURES; MULTICOMPONENTS; NEW MODEL; NUMBER OF SPECIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPEN-SOURCE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POROUS ELECTRODES; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLID-OXIDE; TRANSFER MECHANISMS; TUBULAR CELLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRODES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FUELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 75849156655     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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