Modeling of diffuse charge effects in a microfluidic based laminar flow fuel cell

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Sprague, Isaac B ^a   Dutta, Prashanta ^a,b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BODY FORCES; BUTLER-VOLMER EQUATION; CELL KINETICS; CHARGE EFFECT; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; INSULATED WALLS; ION CONCENTRATIONS; ION TRANSPORT EFFECT; ION TRANSPORTS; MICROFLUIDIC FUEL CELL; MODIFIED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; NERNST-PLANK EQUATIONS; NEUTRAL SPECIES; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STREAMWISE DIRECTIONS;

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FUEL CELLS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROFLUIDICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79551563325     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2010.523299     Document Type: Article

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