Analysis of cooling effectiveness and temperature uniformity in a battery pack for cylindrical batteries

Energies

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Shahid, Seham ^a   Agelin Chaab, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Battery thermal management; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis; Cylindrical lithium ion (Li ion) cells; Forced air passive cooling; Jet inlets; Vortex generators

Indexed keywords

AIR; BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; VORTEX FLOW;

BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; JET INLETS; LITHIUM IONS; PASSIVE COOLING; VORTEX GENERATORS;

THERMAL MANAGEMENT (ELECTRONICS);

EID: 85044477386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en10081157     Document Type: Article

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