Multiscale Battery Thermal Modeling: Macro and Micro-scale Battery Thermal Model Improvements

dc.contributor.authorBasavapatna Shesh, Amith
dc.contributor.departmentChalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för mekanik och maritima vetenskapersv
dc.contributor.examinerSebben, Simone
dc.contributor.supervisorPeciura, Justinas
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-19T12:08:31Z
dc.date.available2022-09-19T12:08:31Z
dc.date.issued2022sv
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.description.abstractThis thesis work concentrates on improving the existing battery thermal model used by Volvo cars. Improvements are brought about in two specific aspects of the battery thermal model; motivation behind choosing these two aspects was to better match the simulation results to the previously conducted test results. The first aspect concentrates on explicitly modeling total heat transfer i.e. conduction, convection and radiation through small air gaps inside the battery module (order of a few mm). Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were carried out using Star-CCM+. Result showed that at a small expense in computational time, a large improvement in accuracy could be attained. The second part of the thesis concentrates on studying heat transfer across micro asperities. It is of common practice to assume that two seemingly flat surfaces in contact with each other to have perfect conductive heat transfer at the interface. In reality, there are micro asperities as a result of surface roughness, these micro asperities give rise to a thermal resistance at the interface between the two surfaces. Results from this study prove that under certain conditions and for certain material interfaces within the battery module, it would be an oversimplification to make the initial observation about perfect conduction between the two surfaces. A methodology to predict contact resistance in the battery module is successfully established. Further, a sensitivity study was carried out to better understand which material pair(s) inside the battery module contributes the most in terms of thermal contact resistance (Rc).sv
dc.identifier.coursecodeMMSX30sv
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12380/305624
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofseries2022:35sv
dc.setspec.uppsokTechnology
dc.subjectcontactsv
dc.subjectresistancesv
dc.subjectheat-transfersv
dc.subjectCFDsv
dc.subjectthermodynamicssv
dc.subjectbatterysv
dc.titleMultiscale Battery Thermal Modeling: Macro and Micro-scale Battery Thermal Model Improvementssv
dc.type.degreeExamensarbete för masterexamensv
dc.type.uppsokH
local.programmeApplied mechanics (MPAME), MSc
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