A multiphysics model for a production scale planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is important for the SOFC technology, but usually requires an unpractical amount of computing resource. The major cause for the h...A multiphysics model for a production scale planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is important for the SOFC technology, but usually requires an unpractical amount of computing resource. The major cause for the huge computing resource requirement is identified as the need to solve the cathode O2 transport and the associated electrochemistry. To overcome the technical obstacle, an analytical model for solving the O2 transport and its coupling with the electrochemistry is derived. The analytical model is used to greatly reduce the numerical mesh complexity of a multiphysics model. Numerical test shows that the analytical approximation is highly accurate and stable. A multiphysics numerical modeling tool taking advantage of the analytical solution is then developed through Fluent@. The numerical efficiency and stability of this modeling tool are further demonstrated by simulating a 30- cell stack with a production scale cell size. Detailed information about the stack performance is revealed and briefly discussed. The multiphysics modeling tool can be used to guide the stack design and select the operating parameters.展开更多
In this paper, the sharp threshold properties of a (2n + 1)-dimensional delayed viral infection model are investigated. This model combines with n classes of uninfected tar- get cells, n classes of infected cells a...In this paper, the sharp threshold properties of a (2n + 1)-dimensional delayed viral infection model are investigated. This model combines with n classes of uninfected tar- get cells, n classes of infected cells and nonlinear incidence rate h(x,v). Two kinds of distributed time delays are incorporated into the model to describe the time needed for infection of uninfected target cells and virus replication. Under certain conditions, it is shown that the basic reproduction number is a threshold parameter for the existence of the equilibria, uniform persistence, as well as for global stability of the equilibria of the model.展开更多
基金This work is supported the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11374272 and No. 11574284), the National Basic Research Program of China (No.2012CB215405) and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology are gratefully acknowledged.
文摘A multiphysics model for a production scale planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is important for the SOFC technology, but usually requires an unpractical amount of computing resource. The major cause for the huge computing resource requirement is identified as the need to solve the cathode O2 transport and the associated electrochemistry. To overcome the technical obstacle, an analytical model for solving the O2 transport and its coupling with the electrochemistry is derived. The analytical model is used to greatly reduce the numerical mesh complexity of a multiphysics model. Numerical test shows that the analytical approximation is highly accurate and stable. A multiphysics numerical modeling tool taking advantage of the analytical solution is then developed through Fluent@. The numerical efficiency and stability of this modeling tool are further demonstrated by simulating a 30- cell stack with a production scale cell size. Detailed information about the stack performance is revealed and briefly discussed. The multiphysics modeling tool can be used to guide the stack design and select the operating parameters.
基金The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees and the editor for very helpful suggestions and comments which led to improvements of our orig- inal paper. J. Wang was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11401182 and 11471089), Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. A201415), Science and Technology Innovation Team in Higher Edu- cation Institutions of Heilongjiang Province (No. 2014TD005), Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2014M552295) and Project funded by Chongqing Postdoctoral Foundation (No. Xm2014024). X. Wang is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11301453), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2014M562366), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (No. 2014010), the Universities Young Teachers Program of Henan Province (No. 2014GGJS-093).
文摘In this paper, the sharp threshold properties of a (2n + 1)-dimensional delayed viral infection model are investigated. This model combines with n classes of uninfected tar- get cells, n classes of infected cells and nonlinear incidence rate h(x,v). Two kinds of distributed time delays are incorporated into the model to describe the time needed for infection of uninfected target cells and virus replication. Under certain conditions, it is shown that the basic reproduction number is a threshold parameter for the existence of the equilibria, uniform persistence, as well as for global stability of the equilibria of the model.