Battery Cooling
FreeCAD Geometry, heat-transfer, Tesla Batteries 4680
The following tutorial shows a simple air-heat-exchanger with Tesla's 4680 batteries which are operating and heated with 100W per cell (in total 2000W). The geometry was created with FreeCAD by Aleksander Sodawski while OpenFOAM® was used to create a numerical investigation. The conditions used within the case are arbitrary and do not represent a full realistic case setup. However, within the case files one will find interesting comments which one might not be aware of.
The geometry was created by using the Open Source software package FreeCAD
The case does have a residual control but that would not be hit due to fluctuations and high relaxation factors. A better way for monitoring the convergence in such cases could be done by evaluating quantities at different locations (probes). While using the ESI-OpenCFD version, one could also make use of the runTimeControl functionObject. The tutorial is dedicated to Tiziano Maffei who is supporting my work since a few years.
Published under the GNU General Public License 3
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The available OpenFOAM® training cases are tested and built for different OpenFOAM® versions (not distributions) on a Linux machine. During the tests, only the OpenFOAM Foundation version of OpenFOAM® was used. Furthermore, the following software packages are required for most of the training cases: Salome®, ParaView®, and for optimization tasks, one also needs the open-source software DAKOTA®. The OpenFOAM® cases might work with the ESI version of OpenFOAM® but it is not supported. For the OpenFOAM® extend project, the training cases will probably not work as the code diverged too much. Additionally, there is no support for Windows-based and MAC-based OpenFOAM® versions.
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