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POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS 14
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 593-602Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/06403.0593ecst
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In this work, the influence of the liquid water inlet boundary conditions at the GDL/catalyst layer interface on the spatial distribution of liquid water within the GDL was studied. We used pore network modeling with invasion percolation to simulate liquid water transport in a commercially available GDL, where the detailed, 3D microstructure of the GDL was obtained through Xray imaging. Three inlet boundary conditions were studied: uniform pressure (single reservoir), uniform flux (completely discretized reservoirs), and distributed uniform pressure (random spatial- and size-distributions of reservoirs). We presented the distributed uniform pressure boundary condition as a more realistic inlet, where inlets are randomly distributed reservoirs that are connected to multiple inlet pores. It was found that the overall saturation ranged from 13% to 23% when the number of inlets ranged from 20 to 300; however, the microporous layer/catalyst layer delamination dominated water transport behaviour.
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