Fluid mechanics of liquid metal batteries

DH Kelley, T Weier - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The design and performance of liquid metal batteries (LMBs), a new technology for grid-
scale energy storage, depend on fluid mechanics because the battery electrodes and …

Recent advances in the modeling of fundamental processes in liquid metal batteries

D Agarwal, R Potnuru, C Kaushik, VR Darla… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) have a potential to emerge as a cost-effective
solution for grid-scale energy storage to overcome the intermittency of renewable energy …

Sloshing instability and electrolyte layer rupture in liquid metal batteries

N Weber, P Beckstein, W Herreman, GM Horstmann… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid metal batteries (LMBs) are discussed today as a cheap grid scale energy storage, as
required for the deployment of fluctuating renewable energies. Built as stable density …

Competing forces in liquid metal electrodes and batteries

RF Ashour, DH Kelley, A Salas, M Starace… - Journal of Power …, 2018 - Elsevier
Liquid metal batteries are proposed for low-cost grid scale energy storage. During their
operation, solid intermetallic phases often form in the cathode and are known to limit the …

Numerical simulation of electrovortex flows in cylindrical fluid layers and liquid metal batteries

W Herreman, C Nore, P Ziebell Ramos, L Cappanera… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We use the multiphase magnetohydrodynamic code SFEMaNS to study the generation of
electrovortex flows in liquid metal batteries. We first reproduce some well known results in a …

Coupling and stability of interfacial waves in liquid metal batteries

GM Horstmann, N Weber, T Weier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
We investigate the coupling dynamics of interfacial waves in liquid metal batteries and its
effects on the battery's operation safety. Similar to aluminium reduction cells, liquid metal …

Thermally driven convection in Li|| Bi liquid metal batteries

P Personnettaz, P Beckstein, S Landgraf… - Journal of Power …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) are a promising concept for cheap electrical energy
storage at grid level. These are built as a stable density stratification of three liquid layers …

Electromagnetically driven convection suitable for mass transfer enhancement in liquid metal batteries

N Weber, M Nimtz, P Personnettaz, A Salas… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Liquid metal batteries (LMBs) were recently proposed as cheap large scale energy storage.
Such devices are urgently required for balancing highly fluctuating renewable energy …

Liquid metal batteries-materials selection and fluid dynamics

T Weier, A Bund, W El-Mofid… - Iop conference …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Liquid metal batteries are possible candidates for massive and economically feasible large-
scale stationary storage and as such could be key components of future energy systems …

Perturbation theory for metal pad roll instability in cylindrical reduction cells

W Herreman, C Nore, JL Guermond… - Journal of fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We propose a new theoretical model for metal pad roll instability in idealized cylindrical
reduction cells. In addition to the usual destabilizing effects, we model viscous and Joule …