Configuration optimization of battery pack in parallel air-cooled battery thermal management system using an optimization strategy

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue , 2017, Pages 177-186

  Chen, Kai ^a   Wang, Shuangfeng ^a   Song, Mengxuan ^b   Chen, Lin ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air cooling; Battery thermal management; Configuration optimization; Flow resistance network model; Heat transfer model

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; HEAT GENERATION; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

AIR COOLING; BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENTS; CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION; FLOW RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL;

BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85019609406     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.05.060     Document Type: Article

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