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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 15Finite-element-method
- 4Polymer electrolyte fuel cells
- 3Membrane electrode assembly
- 3Open-source
- 3Simulations
- 1Acoustic models
- 2Kaiser, Trent.
- 1Agrawal, Arun
- 1Balen, Chad A
- 1Bhaiya,Madhur
- 1Bilawchuk, Steven D.
- 1Domican, Kailyn P
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Fall 2016
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) operate with a ternary mixture of fuel and reactants. The majority of numerical models in the literature, including the in-house Open-source Fuel Cell Simulation Toolbox (OpenFCST) software, use Fick’s law of diffusion which is only valid for binary...
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An open-source two-phase non-isothermal mathematical model of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
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A comprehensive open-source two-phase non-isothermal MEA model including the microporous layer and accounting for multi-step reaction kinetics for the ORR and HOR is developed for the first time. The model is integrated into openFCST, an open-source FEM based fuel cell simulation framework. All...
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Spring 2017
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is one of the most popular methods used for heavy oil extraction in Canada. Of the existing sand control methods that can be used for SAGD, slotted liners can be considered among the superior ones in terms of their performance and cost of manufacturing. RGL...
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Mathematical modeling and experimental validation of thin low platinum content and functionally graded cathode catalyst layers
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Low catalyst content remains a key requirement for the commercialization of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) into the energy, transportation, and material handling sectors. Understanding the fundamental phenomena reducing fuel cell performance at various stages of operation play a major...
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Fall 2014
Three important mechanical behaviors of microtubules in vivo, i.e., buckling, vibration and splitting are investigated with especial focus on their relevance to biological functions of microtubules. To study the vibration and buckling of a microtubule, we model a microtubule as an elastic beam...