Computational fluid dynamic and thermal analysis of Lithium-ion battery pack with air cooling

Applied Energy

Volumn 177, Issue , 2016, Pages 783-792

  Saw, Lip Huat ^a   Ye, Yonghuang ^c   Tay, Andrew A O ^b   Chong, Wen Tong ^d   Kuan, Seng How ^a   Yew, Ming Chian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Electric Vehicle Cell   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Battery pack; Battery temperature; CFD analysis; Heat generation; Heat transfer correlation

Indexed keywords

AIR; AUTOMOBILE COOLING SYSTEMS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT GENERATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LITHIUM ALLOYS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; THERMOANALYSIS;

ACCELERATING RATE CALORIMETER; BATTERY PACK; BATTERY TEMPERATURE; CFD ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; COPPER; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; HEAT TRANSFER; LITHIUM; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 84975091267     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.05.122     Document Type: Article

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