AfriComp 2020

MS1410: Modeling and Computation of Electrochemical Cells

2020/11/30

November 30 – December 2, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa

Organized by Bilen Emek Abali and Bai-Xiang Xu

Despite the scientific breakthrough in electromobility and Internet of Things (IoT), battery research still fails to deliver design suggestions for building sustainable batteries with high performance. Faster charging times are necessary for a broader use in electromobility, and at the same time lower degradation over time is expected especially in harsh environments in IoT. Different electrochemical cells are used in batteries, photovoltaics, catalysis, and other energy applications.

Understanding the cells in a multiphysics senerio, including but not limited to electrochemistry, mechanics, heat and charge transport, is essential for design their functionality and optimize their performance and lifetime. In particular, mechanics can have a critical influence on energy conversion and storage processes in materials. Such a sophisticated multiphysics application is very challenging to analyze such that various methods are being investigated concerning the modeling of chemo-mechanics in a battery cell, thermodynamical modeling in multiphysics, modeling of interfaces in electrochemical cells, as well as computational accuracy in the finite element method.

This minisymposium aims to bring together experts with a range of expertise in materials science, mechanics, engineering, and chemistry for sessions focused on multiphysics modeling, computational methods, and numerical simulations of electrochemical cells.

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