Date of Award
2010
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Engineering, Mechanical.
Supervisor
Zhou, Biao (Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering)
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
The liquid water removal process in the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) has a large influence on the fuel cell performance since the PEMFC works under a relatively low temperature. In this project, the water behavior in both the gas flow channels and porous layer at the cathode side of a PEMFC with different channel geometry are studied numerically. Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package FLUENT 6.3.26 is used to conduct the simulation. The methodology applied in the numerical investigation using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) model in this software package and the numerical fuel cell model constructed in this project is validated with an experiment.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Xiaojing, "Liquid water removal process in the PEMFC cathode side" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 196.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/196