1. Institute of Fuel Cell, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 2. Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 3. Low Carbon Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
Reactant gas and liquid water transport phenomena in the flow channels are complex and critical to the performance and durability of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The polymer membrane needs water at an optimum level for proton conductivity. Water management involves the prevention of dehydration, waterlogging, and the cell’s subsequent performance decline and degradation. This process requires the study and understanding of internal two-phase flows. Different experimental visualization techniques are used to study two-phase flows in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. However, the experiments have limitations in in situ measurements; they are also expensive and time exhaustive. In contrast, numerical modeling is cheaper and faster, providing insights into the complex multiscale processes occurring across the components of the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.
This paper introduces the recent design of flow channels. It reviews the numerical modeling techniques adopted for the transport phenomena therein: the two-fluid, multiphase mixture, volume of fluid, lattice Boltzmann, and pressure drop models. Furthermore, this work describes, compares, and analyses the models’ approaches and reviews the representative results of some selected aspects. Finally, the paper summarizes the modeling perspectives, emphasizing future directions with some recommendations.
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?Considers the phases separately.?Computes two mass, momentum, and energy conservation equations for each phase.
?Considers a two-phase flow as a single-fluid flow with a varying phase composition.?Solves a single continuity, momentum, and energy equation for the mixture and algebraic expressions for the relative velocities and volume fractions.
?An interface-tracking technique for two or immiscible fluids. ?Solves a single set of momentum equations for the whole fluid domain.
?A mesoscopic approach that describes the statistical distribution of particles in a fluid and simulates the fluid flow through the evolution of the particle distribution functions on fixed lattices.
?Evaluates the pressure drop using correlations based on the homogeneous or separated formulations ?Uses the pressure drop to characterise flow patterns and interactions.
Applications
?For two or more interpenetrating phases (fluid-fluid).?Primarily used to simulate dispersed flow.
?Designed for two or more phases (fluid or particulate).
?Designed for two or more immiscible fluids where the position of the interface between the fluids is of interest ?For steady or transient tracking of any liquid-gas interface.
?Efficient for single- and multiphase fluid with interfacial dynamics and complex boundaries. ?For the study of the wettability of solid surfaces and behaviour of droplets on different surfaces.
?Effective for analysing flow patterns (slug flows, mist flows, annular flow, bubble flow, stratified flow) in channels of different length scales.
Strengths
?High accuracy, relatively good performance. ?Uses interphase transfer models.?Can model species diffusion and resolve complex liquid motions.?Can be used to quantify liquid water saturation (amount of liquid water) in the flow channels and its effect on PEMFC performances.
?Significant reduction in the number of variables and computational time and cost.?Has reduced complexity.?Requires less modelling effort compared to two-fluid and VOF models.?Inherently assumes local equilibrium between the gas and liquid phases, simplifying the calculation.?Can evaluate the quantity of liquid water in the flow channels and predict its influence on fuel cell performances.
?Powerful, efficient, and flexible.?Can solve problems with complex free surface configuration. ?Conservation is ensured.?Can be used to observe the formation and evolution of liquid water droplets in flow channels.?Well-suited for surface-tension dominant flows, especially in microchannels.?Can track the shape of a droplet.
?Computationally more efficient than conventional models.?Requires less time to produce results for the same or finer computational mesh.?Easy implementation of boundary conditions and parallel computations.?Can be adopted for macroscale, mesoscale, or microscale flow situations. ?Accounts for interactions between different phases.
?Suitable for many flow patterns. ?Availability of several correlations to describe complex flow situations.
Shortcomings
?Has the highest number of variables?High computational time and cost.?Increased complexity. ?Instabilities are experienced due to the coupling of phases.?Requires specification of phase change kinetics, making its calculation more complicated.?Cannot track the gas-liquid interface; hence, it cannot be used to observe liquid water droplets’ formation, transition, and motion.
?Convergence and mass conservation problems. ?Cannot use interphase transfer model. ?Requires evaluation of many mixture quantities.?Cannot observe the formation of liquid water or study droplet dynamics.
?High computational cost?Accurate reconstruction of the curvature of the interface is difficult in unstructured grids and complex geometries.?Difficult to couple the model with electrochemical reactions and heat transfer.
?Difficult to couple the model with electrochemical reactions and heat transfer ?Spurious currents at high values.?Challenging to adopt the model for large-scale flow channels.
?Prediction of pressure drop in PEMFC channel bend is challenging.?Limited applicability of correlations.
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