Thermo-electric simulation of battery-modules with reduced order modelling of linear electrical components
ISSN: 0332-1649
Article publication date: 4 September 2017
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to present a fully coupled thermo-electrical finite-element battery model with an applied model-order reduction. The model is used to analyse the thermal design of battery modules during typical drive-cycles of electric vehicles.
Design/methodology/approach
A model-order reduction is applied, in which the electrical linear bus-bars are analysed in an a-priori step. For these bus-bars, special distributed basis-functions are computed, which make the solution of differential Ohm's law unnecessary during the transient simulation. Furthermore, the distributed basis-functions are used to strongly couple the non-linear battery models, which reduces the iterations needed to simulate them.
Findings
Altogether, this results in a fast simulation scheme for coupled linear and non-linear electrical components and their thermal behaviour.
Originality/value
The presented method delivers an innovative approach, on how to systematically minimize the computational effort in a system of linear and non-linear electrical components, while keeping the full three-dimensional information of the original problem.
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Acknowledgements
This work was performed within the eMPROVE project, financially supported by the Climate and Energy Fund provided by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and partially supported by COMET Programme and FFG.
Citation
Pichler, F., Koester, N. and Thaler, A. (2017), "Thermo-electric simulation of battery-modules with reduced order modelling of linear electrical components", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 1488-1500. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-02-2017-0075
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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