TY - JOUR
KW - Gas-diffusion layer
KW - Polymer-electrolyte fuel cell
KW - Mathematical modeling
KW - Conformal mapping
KW - Diffusion medium
AU - Adam Z Weber
AB - <p>In this manuscript, conformal mapping is applied to a rib/channel domain of a polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell diffusion medium. The analysis leads to the calculation of an effective diffusion-medium thickness, which can subsequently be used in 1D simulations to account for the average rib/channel 2D geometric effect. Extensions of the analysis to anisotropic and multilayer diffusion media are also given. Both equations and figures show the impact on a given variable at the catalyst layer of having a combined conducting/nonconducting boundary across from it.</p>
BT - Electrochimica Acta
DA - 12/2008
DO - 10.1016/j.electacta.2008.07.084
IS - 2
LA - eng
N2 - <p>In this manuscript, conformal mapping is applied to a rib/channel domain of a polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell diffusion medium. The analysis leads to the calculation of an effective diffusion-medium thickness, which can subsequently be used in 1D simulations to account for the average rib/channel 2D geometric effect. Extensions of the analysis to anisotropic and multilayer diffusion media are also given. Both equations and figures show the impact on a given variable at the catalyst layer of having a combined conducting/nonconducting boundary across from it.</p>
PY - 2008
SP - 311 
EP -  315
ST - Electrochimica Acta
T2 - Electrochimica Acta
TI - Effective diffusion-medium thickness for simplified polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell modeling
VL - 54
SN - 00134686
ER -