The molar species fluxes, Ni (SI unit: mol/(m
2·s)), perpendicular to an electrode-electrolyte interface are calculated by summing all the flux contributions from the electrode reactions, of index
m, according to Faraday’s law:
where im is the local current density (SI unit: A/m
2) of the electrochemical reaction,
nm the number of participating electrons and
F (SI unit: C/mol) is
Faraday’s constant.
The molar species flux, Ni, is obtained from normal component of the molar species flux vector over the electrode-electrolyte interface:
where n is the normal vector of the boundary pointing into the domain.
where av,m, (SI unit: m
2/m
3) is the specific surface area.