Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7722687 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2013 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
A novel, realistic 3D model is developed describing the microstructure of non-woven GDL in PEMFC which consists of strongly curved and non-overlapping fibers. The model is constructed by a two-stage procedure. First we introduce a system of random fibers, where the locations of their midpoints are modeled by a 3D Poisson point process and the fibers themselves by random 3D polygonal tracks which represent single fibers in terms of multivariate time series. Secondly, we transform the random fiber system into a system of non-overlapping fibers using an iterative method leaned on the so-called force-biased algorithm. The model is validated by comparing transport-relevant characteristics computed for experimental 3D synchrotron data, and for realizations sampled from the stochastic microstructure model. Finally, we suggest a model for the spatial distribution of PTFE, a wet-proofing agent often used in non-woven GDL, and combine this PTFE model with our new microstructure model for non-woven GDL.
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Authors
Gerd Gaiselmann, Dieter Froning, Christian Tötzke, Christian Quick, Ingo Manke, Werner Lehnert, Volker Schmidt,