Fluid mechanics of liquid metal batteries

DH Kelley, T Weier - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The design and performance of liquid metal batteries (LMBs), a new technology for grid-
scale energy storage, depend on fluid mechanics because the battery electrodes and …

Progress and perspectives of liquid metal batteries

S Wu, X Zhang, R Wang, T Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing demands for the penetration of renewable energy into the grid urgently call
for low-cost and large-scale energy storage technologies. With an intrinsic dendrite-free …

Strategies for building robust traffic networks in advanced energy storage devices: a focus on composite electrodes

Y Wang, X Fu, M Zheng, WH Zhong… - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The charge transport system in an energy storage device (ESD) fundamentally controls the
electrochemical performance and device safety. As the skeleton of the charge transport …

Cell voltage model for Li-Bi liquid metal batteries

N Weber, C Duczek, GM Horstmann, S Landgraf… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium-bismuth bimetallic cells are amongst the best explored liquid metal batteries. A
simple and fast quasi-one-dimensional cell voltage model for such devices is presented …

Recent advances in the modeling of fundamental processes in liquid metal batteries

D Agarwal, R Potnuru, C Kaushik, VR Darla… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) have a potential to emerge as a cost-effective
solution for grid-scale energy storage to overcome the intermittency of renewable energy …

A numerical analysis of air entrapment during droplet impact on an immiscible liquid film

F Yeganehdoust, R Attarzadeh, I Karimfazli… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The air entrapment during droplet impingement is responsible for spontaneous droplet
bouncing on an arbitrary solid surface at low Weber numbers. However, for the impact on …

Competing forces in liquid metal electrodes and batteries

RF Ashour, DH Kelley, A Salas, M Starace… - Journal of Power …, 2018 - Elsevier
Liquid metal batteries are proposed for low-cost grid scale energy storage. During their
operation, solid intermetallic phases often form in the cathode and are known to limit the …

Simulation of potential and species distribution in a Li|| Bi liquid metal battery using coupled meshes

C Duczek, N Weber, OE Godinez-Brizuela, T Weier - Electrochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work a 1D finite volume based model using coupled meshes is introduced to capture
potential and species distribution throughout the discharge process in a lithium–bismuth …

Numerical simulation of electrovortex flows in cylindrical fluid layers and liquid metal batteries

W Herreman, C Nore, P Ziebell Ramos, L Cappanera… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We use the multiphase magnetohydrodynamic code SFEMaNS to study the generation of
electrovortex flows in liquid metal batteries. We first reproduce some well known results in a …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-field coupled model for liquid metal battery: Comparative analysis of various flow mechanisms and their effects on mass transfer and electrochemical …

X Zhou, C Gao, Y Shen, H Li, S Yan, H Zhou, K Wang… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The operation of a liquid metal battery involves multiple physical fields, such as
electrochemical reaction, mass transfer, heat transfer, fluid flow, magnetic field, etc. It is of …