Abstract
In this study, a general model of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) was constructed, implemented and employed to simulate the fluid flow, heat transfer, species transport, electrochemical reaction, and current density distribution, especially focusing on liquid water effects on PEMFC performance. The model is a three-dimensional and unsteady one with detailed thermo-electrochemistry, multi-species, and two-phase interaction with explicit gas–liquid interface tracking by using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. The general model was implemented into the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package FLUENT ® v6.2, with its user-defined functions (UDFs). A complete PEMFC was considered, including membrane, gas diffusion layers (GDLs), catalyst layers, gas flow channels, and current collectors. The effects of liquid water on PEMFC with serpentine channels were investigated. The results showed that this general model of PEMFC can be a very useful tool for the optimization of practical engineering designs of PEMFC.
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