Electrochemical Cell Calculations with OpenFOAM / Lecture Notes in Energy Bd.42 (PDF)

Professor S.B. Beale has been conducting research in computational fluid dynamics and numerical heat and mass transfer for over 30 years. He became interested in physicochemical hydrodynamics while attending the Levich conference at Oxford University, in 1987. He first built a model of a solid-oxide fuel cell stack, in 2000. Since then, he has built models of both solid-oxide and polymer-electrolyte fuel cells at micro, cell, and stack scales using both in-house (C-programming language) and commercial CFD codes. Many projects involved external clients. For the last 10 years the open source library, OpenFOAM, was employed exclusively in his research group, which has included professional programmers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Prof. Beale is personally collaborating with several of the original developers of the OpenFOAM code and affiliates. He spearheaded the development of the openFuelCell project, which is available online at sourceForge. Professor Beale is operating agent (chair) of Annex 37 - fuel cell modeling: a part of the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on Advanced Fuel Cells. He is associate editor for the Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage. He has been adjunct professor in the department of mechanical and materials engineering at Queen's University, Canada, since 2003. Professor Beale has given a number of invited talks; at OpenFOAM workshops and conferences, other international conferences and workshops, as well as at prestigious research establishments such as NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Imperial College, London. Contributing a book which combines basic engineering research in electrochemical science and software best practices is a subject which, not only is Professor Beale eminently qualified to contribute, but also represents a unique and practical solution.







Professor W. Lehnert is a member of the Faculty of Mechanical