Numerical investigation of effects of porous layer properties and thickness on performance of PEMFC

Strojarstvo

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 507-516

  Gulan, Utku ^a   Turkoglu, Hasmet ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Porous medium; Proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Indexed keywords

CATALYST LAYERS; CATHODE CATALYST LAYERS; CATHODE GAS; CELL PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION EQUATIONS; CONTROL VOLUME METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; FLUID FLOW; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS; GAS FLOW CHANNEL; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ON FLOW; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; POROUS LAYERS; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER DENSITIES; PROBLEM DOMAIN; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

CATALYSTS; CATHODES; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW OF GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; MEMBRANES; OXYGEN; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); PROTONS;

DIFFUSION IN GASES;

EID: 79954482946     PISSN: 05621887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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