TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yu, Junliang
AU  - Froning, Dieter
AU  - Reimer, Uwe
AU  - Lehnert, Werner
TI  - Liquid water breakthrough location distances on a gas diffusion layer of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
JO  - Journal of power sources
VL  - 389
SN  - 0378-7753
CY  - New York, NY [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2018-00097
SP  - 56 - 60
PY  - 2018
AB  - The lattice Boltzmann method is adopted to simulate the three dimensional dynamic process of liquid water breaking through the gas diffusion layer (GDL) in the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. 22 micro-structures of Toray GDL are built based on a stochastic geometry model. It is found that more than one breakthrough locations are formed randomly on the GDL surface. Breakthrough location distance (BLD) are analyzed statistically in two ways. The distribution is evaluated statistically by the Lilliefors test. It is concluded that the BLD can be described by the normal distribution with certain statistic characteristics. Information of the shortest neighbor breakthrough location distance can be the input modeling setups on the cell-scale simulations in the field of fuel cell simulation.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000433267100008
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.04.004
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/841793
ER  -