Introduction

The Fuel Cell & Electrolyzer Module simulates the fundamental processes in the electrodes and electrolytes of fuel cells and electrolyzers. These simulations can involve the transport of charged and neutral species, current conduction, fluid flow, heat transfer, and electrochemical reactions in porous electrodes.

You can use this module to investigate the performance of fuel and electrolyzer cells for different electrode configurations, membranes, separators and diaphragms, current collectors and feeders, materials, and chemistry. The description of the involved processes and phenomena is rather detailed, and you can therefore apply different hypotheses to gain an understanding of the investigated systems. You can study the influence of different electrocatalysts, pore distribution, electrolyte composition, and other fundamental parameters directly in the physics interfaces.

You can also couple the electrochemistry to other physics such as heat transfer, fluid flow, structural mechanics, and chemical species transport in order to study phenomena like thermal effects and stress-strain relationships.