Modeling the effect of aging on the electrical and thermal behaviors of a lithium-ion battery during constant current charge and discharge cycling

Abstract

Abstract This paper reports a two-dimensional modeling to predict the aging effect on the variation of the electrical and thermal behaviors of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) cell under the constant current (CC) charge and discharge cycling over a long time. To account for the aging effects of the LIB cell due to cycling, the key modeling parameters are expressed as a function of cycling number. In order to validate the modeling methodology introduced in this paper, the modeling results towards the changes of the discharge curves and two-dimensional temperature distributions of the aged LIB cell during CC discharge at different C rates are compared with the experimental measurements after every thousand cycles. The electrical and thermal behaviors predicted by the modeling for the aged LIB cell show good agreement with the experimental data.