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Mesoscale Interactions of Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

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Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media with Applications

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Transport in porous media can be analyzed at various scales. Mesoscale formulations, such as lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) , play an important role in deciphering the pore-scale flow, heat and mass transfer. The present chapter uses LBM to quantify the mass and momentum transport within the gas diffusion layer (GDL) of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells . The chapter presents stochastic reconstruction of the GDL microstructure, followed by LBM simulation of two-phase flow and electrochemistry through the GDL pores. The chapter paves the way for connecting the mesoscopic information with the macroscopic physics of fuel cells.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Malay K. Das

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Partha P. Mukherjee

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    K. Muralidhar

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Das, M.K., Mukherjee, P.P., Muralidhar, K. (2018). Mesoscale Interactions of Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. In: Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media with Applications. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69866-3_3

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