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Parallel Computing Simulation of Large-Scale Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

대면적 고분자전해질연료전지의 병렬계산 시뮬레이션

  • Received : 2011.10.05
  • Accepted : 2011.12.27
  • Published : 2011.12.31
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Abstract

This paper presents a parallel computing methodology for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) and detailed simulation contours of a real-scale fuel cell. In this work, a three-dimensional two-phase PEFC model is applied to a large-scale 200 $cm^2$ fuel cell geometry that requires roughly 13.5 million grid points based on grid-independence study. For parallel computing, the large-scale computational domain is decomposed into 12 sub-domains and parallel simulations are carried out using 12 processors of 2.53 GHz Intel core i7 and 48GB RECC DDR3-1333. The work represents the first attempt to parallelize a two-phase PEFC code and illustrate two-phase contours in a representative industrial cell.

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