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Host: Simon Fraser University
Sponsor: PIMS, MITACS, Ballard Power Systems
Homepage: http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/2001/cfcd/
Organizers: Keith Promislow, Radu Bradean, Brian Wetton
Description:
The workshop will delve into the modeling and numerical resolution of the
processes of phase change, multi-phase transport, electro-chemistry, and
interface dynamics in the porous electrodes of Proton Exchange Membrane
(PEM) fuel cells. PEM fuel cells convert oxygen and hydrogen into water and
useful electric potential in an exothermic process. An effective model of water
management in fuel cells, which predicts condensation and subsequent motion
of condensate, must include the effects of multi-species, multi-phase
transport, electro-chemistry, liquid motion in porous media with high-energy
liquid-solid interfaces. The numerical resolution of the models posses
significant problems, including moving boundary layers and wide ranges of
time-scales for differing physical processes.
Date received: April 30, 2001
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