Thermal Management of an Electrical Vehicle Battery Packing Using 1D and 3D CFD

摘要

With the increased concerns over the future use of fossil fuels, especially in automobiles, the rise of popular sentiment towards electric and hybrid electrical vehicles is no surprise. But there is still a major area of design challenge: batteries. As the primary means for storing the electrical energy used for electrical vehicles, the battery of choice needs to be extremely efficient yet as lightweight as possible to allow for reasonable driving distance on a single charge. Although several factors affect the efficiency of these batteries, one of the most important is temperature.