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Thermal Modeling of Supercapacitors

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Thermal Effects in Supercapacitors

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The previous chapter reviewed the experimentally observed variations in electrochemical performance with temperature. The performance of supercapacitors depends strongly on operating temperature; therefore it is necessary to model temperature variations inside a supercapacitor. The major advantage of theoretical models is that they provide an opportunity to avoid time-consuming and expensive experiments by predicting performance in a wide range of applications and then building guidelines based on those predictions (Ike et al. in J Power Sources 273:264–277, 2015 [13]). Models can be used to study the thermal behavior of supercapacitors and thereby to develop new thermal management strategies. In this chapter, fundamentals of thermal modeling and various modeling approaches for temperature evolution are discussed from a theoretical standpoint.

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    Guoping Xiong & Arpan Kundu

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Xiong, G., Kundu, A., Fisher, T.S. (2015). Thermal Modeling of Supercapacitors. In: Thermal Effects in Supercapacitors. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20242-6_5

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