Paper Info
Title
Open-source computational model of a solid oxide fuel cell.
Abstract
The solid oxide fuel cell is an electro-chemical device which converts chemical energy into electricity and heat. To compete in today’s market, design improvements, in terms of performance and life cycle, are required. Numerical prototypes can accelerate design and development progress. In this programme of research, a three-dimensional solid oxide fuel cell prototype, openFuelCell, based on open-source computational fluid dynamics software was developed and applied to a single cell. Transport phenomena, combined with the solution to the local Nernst equation for the open-circuit potential, as well as the Kirchhoff–Ohm relationship for the local current density, allow local electro-chemistry, fluid flow, multi-component species transport, and multi-region thermal analysis to be considered. The underlying physicochemical hydrodynamics, including porous-electrode and electro-chemical effects are described in detail. The openFuelCell program is developed in an object-oriented open-source C++ library. The code is available at http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/. The paper also describes domain decomposition techniques considered in the context of highly efficient parallel programming.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cpc.2015.10.007
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Solid oxide fuel cell,Computational fluid dynamics,Physicochemical hydrodynamics,Electro-chemistry,Heat and mass transfer
Process engineering,Chemical energy,Mathematical optimization,Simulation,Transport phenomena,Fluid dynamics,Computational fluid dynamics,Mass transfer,Domain decomposition methods,Mathematics,Solid oxide fuel cell,Nernst equation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
200
0010-4655
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven B. Beale120.46
Haewon Choi240.88
Jon G. Pharoah320.46
Helmut K. Roth420.46
H. Jasak532.92
Dong Hyup Jeon620.46