A review of recent development: Transport and performance modeling of PEM fuel cells

HW Wu - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This study reviews technical papers on transport and performance modeling of proton
exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells during the past few years. The PEM fuel cell is a …

A review on gas purge of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Mechanisms, experimental approaches, numerical approaches, and optimization

S Xu, B Yin, Z Li, F Dong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The purging process has implications for the commercial application of proton exchange
membrane fuel cells. Transport phenomena are essential to understand purging process …

Modeling two-phase flow in three-dimensional complex flow-fields of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

J Kim, G Luo, CY Wang - Journal of Power Sources, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D fine-mesh flow-fields recently developed by Toyota Mirai improved water
management and mass transport in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stacks …

Enhancement of PEM fuel cell performance by flow channel indentation

A Ghanbarian, MJ Kermani - Energy Conversion and management, 2016 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional, steady, single-phase flow of oxygen, nitrogen and water vapor mixture
in the cathode of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell was numerically studied here …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical study on performance enhancement of a solid oxide fuel cell using gas flow field with obstacles and metal foam

A Naouar, D Ferrero, M Santarelli, H Dhahri… - Results in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of gas flow field design on the performance of a solid
oxide fuel cell (SOFC). A three-dimensional numerical model of the cell and channel is …

Influence of wave parallel flow field design on the performance of PEMFC

X Chen, Z Yu, X Wang, W Li, Y Chen, C Jin… - Journal of energy …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Flow field plays an important role in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)
performance. Excellent flow field configuration promotes the transport of reactant gases in …

Effect of flow field with converging and diverging channels on proton exchange membrane fuel cell performance

N Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A Arefian, MJ Kermani… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel bipolar flow field design is proposed. This new design consists of
placed sequentially converging and diverging channels. Numerical simulation of cathode …

Neutron radiographic in operando investigation of water transport in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells with channel barriers

SS Alrwashdeh, I Manke, H Markötter… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a study on a new type of flow field channel design for polymer electrolyte
membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Small barriers have been implemented into the flow field …

Numerical investigation of novel bio-inspired flow field design scheme for PEM fuel cell

J Dong, S Liu, S Liu - Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The uniformity of reaction gas distribution and water drainage performance may be
influenced by the flow field structure and the total distance between the inlet and outlet of a …

A two-dimensional analytical model of PEMFC with dead-ended anode

S Liu, T Chen, Y Xie - International Journal of Green Energy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
When the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) works in the mode of dead-ended
anode (DA), the water and the nitrogen in the cathode flow channel will diffuse, and …