A multi-scale approach to material modeling of fuel cell diffusion media

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1360-1368

  Becker, Jürgen ^a   Wieser, Christian ^b   Fell, Stephan ^b   Steiner, Konrad ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b ADAM OPEL AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fuel cell; Knudsen diffusion; Microporous layer

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; BINARY DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODES; GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS; IMAGING DATA; KNUDSEN; KNUDSEN DIFFUSION; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; MATERIAL MODELING; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MICRO-POROUS LAYER COATINGS; MICROPOROUS LAYERS; MODELING APPROACH; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTISCALE METHOD; PENETRATION DEPTH; PORE SPACE; PORE WALL; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIA; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; VIRTUAL MODELS;

DIFFUSION IN GASES; FUEL CELLS; LAPLACE EQUATION; MICROPOROSITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFUSION COATINGS;

EID: 78751645198     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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