Bio-inspired design of bipolar plate flow fields for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

22nd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 607-623

  Guo, Nannan ^a   Leu, Ming C ^a   Wu, Maoliang ^b  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; GASES; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

BIO-INSPIRED DESIGNS; FLOW-FIELD DESIGN; FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSPORT LOSS; MATHEMATIC MODEL; NATURAL STRUCTURES; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANES;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 84898437300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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