The Porous Electrode node sets up charge balances for the electrode and the pore electrolyte in a porous electrode, and as well as the mass balance for the species in the electrolyte.
See the Electrolyte node for more information about the
Diffusion and
Migration in Electric Field settings of this node.
Correction factors may be specified in the Effective Transport Parameter Correction section to account for the lowered effective conductivities of the electrode and electrolyte phases due to the lower volume fractions of each phase, and the tortuosity of the porous matrix.
The Electrode volume fraction is used to calculate the effective electrical conductivity of the porous matrix when the correction factor is set to
Bruggeman or
Tortuosity. Additionally, it
is used in calculating the active specific surface area of the porous matrix when
Particle-based area option is selected in the child nodes.