CD-adapco + Battery Design LLC

= New Battery Simulation Technology

The demand for light weight,
high capacity lithium ion
batteries is increasing daily.
The life, durability, and safety
of lithium ion batteries are
critical design objectives
whether for automotive,
aerospace, industrial, or
household applications.
For more information on how CD-adapco is advancing the state-of-the-art in battery
simulation, visit our website at hhtp://www.cd-adapco.com/industries/battery

CD-adapco is known for its 30+ years of experience with thermal-fluid simulations. Battery Design LLC has
more than 10 years experience with the development of Li-ion battery analysis software and cell design
consulting. In 2009, Battery Design LLC and CD-adapco initiated a partnership for integrating the battery
and CFD simulation technologies. Since then the two companies have been developing the fully integrated
simulation environment consisting of the following 2 products:
Battery Design Studio®
Battery Design Studio® has Physics model (advanced electrochemistry
model), equivalent circuit model and NTG (Newman Tiedeman Gu)
model to simulate battery performance. BDS’s integrated environment
offers more efficient information sharing, cell/pack design, simulation,
evaluation of experiment data and simulation outputs. BDS will
speed up the battery design process for its users and provide a
standard platform connecting material suppliers, cell designers and
battery users.

Electrochemistry model results for a high pulse power

Screen shot of BDS describing the electrode dimensions
characterization simulation
 STAR-CCM+ Battery Simulation Module
STAR-CCM+ Battery Simulation Module (BSM) is the CAE
environment that takes battery cell information from Battery Design
Studio® and allows full 3D calculations to be completed. STAR-CCM+
is a widely used CAE software with auto meshing, fluid/solid coupled
solver and powerful visualization tools. STAR-CCM+ BSM has
thermal/electrical solver of BDS and retains the powerful functions
of STAR-CCM+ and it’s user friendly tools. STAR-CCM+ BSM can
provide complex module and pack simulations and visualization of
thermal/electrical phenomena in batteries. STAR-CCM+ BSM will
strongly enhance your design optimization capability for battery cells
and packs.

Screen shot of STAR-CCM+ BSM showing temperatures during a 1C discharge,

graphs show maximum battery temperature and state of charge of battery

Graph showing maximum temperature within a
battery cell for different discharge rates
Battery Design Studio® Benefits
Battery Performance Models
• The physics model is developed based on Newman model.
This model calculates Li-ion intercalation between electrolyte
and active materials. Then the model simulates the current
density, voltage and Li-ion transfer within the battery cell.
• Equivalent circuit model replaces the battery cell behavior with
a circuit which consists of resistance (R) and capacitance (C).
This RCR model computes the heat generation as a function
of voltage and current.
• NTG (Newman Tiedeman Gu) fits the open circuit voltage
and discharging curves to polynomials. This model calculates
the heat generation from the voltage profile of the fitted
polynomial.
Results Visualization
• Battery Design Studio’s OutViewer can plot experimental
results and simulation results quickly and easily, so user
can understand the result on a user friendly Graphical User
Interface(GUI). Interpreters for common battery testers are
embedded in the code
• GAP analysis
This function automatically judges the adequateness of a cell
for HEV/EV applications. The qualification is based on USABC
(US advanced Battery Consortium) standard HPPC (Hybrid
Pulse Power Characterization) test. Battery Design Studio® is
official software of USABC.
STAR-CCM+ Battery Simulation Module Benefits
• 3D thermal/fluid/electrochemistry analysis
STAR-CCM+ BSM has the ability to calculate not only cell
active area but also thermally conducting parts within a
pack like tabs and straps at high discharge/charge rate.
STAR-CCM+ BSM can analyze thermal problems including
cooling system like liquid-cooling, air-cooling or heat-pump
cooling. STAR-CCM+ BSM can greatly improve your thermal
optimization capability.
• Parallel calculation
STAR-CCM+ BSM retains the large scale parallel computation
capacity of STAR-CCM+. STAR-CCM+ BSM can simulate
hundreds of battery cells simultaneously.
• Visualization
STAR-CCM+ BSM can visualize thermal and electrical
quantities that are difficult to measure experimentally.
e.g contours of heat generation and current density. Also
integrated values such as total heat rejection are easily
obtained
The integrated CAE environment by Battery Design Studio® and
STAR-CCM+ Battery Simulation Module will provide you seamless
and powerful cell design/analysis/evaluation tools.

For more information on how CD-adapco is advancing the state-of-the-art in battery

simulation, visit our website at hhtp://www.cd-adapco.com/industries/battery

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