Lattice Boltzmann simulations of water transport from the gas diffusion layer to the gas channel in PEFC

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1206-1218

  Moriyama, Koji ^a,b   Inamuro, Takaji ^b  

^a HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gas diffusion layer; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell; Two phase lattice Boltzmann method; X ray CT imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951990247     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.311009.081110s     Document Type: Article

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