Academic Press Simulation of Battery Systems: Fundamentals and Applications

Simulation of Battery Systems: Fundamentals and Applications covers both the fundamental and technical aspects of battery systems. It is a solid reference on the simulation of battery dynamics based on fundamental governing equations of porous electrodes. Sections cover the fundamentals of electrochemistry and how to obtain electrochemical governing equations for porous electrodes, the governing equations and physical characteristics of lead-acid batteries, the physical characteristics of zinc-silver oxide batteries, experimental tests and parameters necessary for simulation and validation of battery dynamics, and an environmental impact and techno-economic assessment of battery systems for different applications, such as electric vehicles and battery energy storage. The book contains introductory information, with most chapters requiring a solid background in engineering or applied science. Battery industrial companies who want to improve their industrial batteries will also find this book useful. Review A solid reference on the simulation of battery dynamics that is based on fundamental governing equations of porous electrodes About the Author Farschad Torabi is an assistant professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran. His research interests include renewable energies, batteries and electrochemical systems. His background is in mechanical engineering and his research agenda addresses numerical simulation, using a combination of computational fluid mechanics and analytical methods. Pouria Ahmadi is currently a lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Environment (ISEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). At UIUC he is working on electric vehicle selection towards sustainable transportation from various points of view from technical aspects to life cycle assessment and degradation model. Prior to joining UIUC, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fuel Cell Research Laboratory (FCReL) of Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He has 85 publications in high-ranked and peer-reviewed journals, and at international conferences, he has several book chapters in energy related books. He also serves as editorial board member, guest editor and organizer for ASME conferences.