The most important element of Electric vehicle is the Battery Pack. During operations the temperature of the Batteries can increase and can lead to Fire.

We ran a CFD simulation to see the effects of air flow on temperature. Only half model was used to reduce the Computational time and resources.

1. CAD Model:

Total 20 Cells are modeled in 4 rows and 5 columns with brackets on top and bottom.

To reduce the computational time and resources only one half of model is used.

2. Mesh Properties:

Tetra Mesh - 3.12 Million Mesh size

Only Tet Mesh was used. No Prism layer was used to capture the BL as this was just a case study.

3. Turbulence Model:

Realizable K -Epsilon with Standard wall function

4. Boundary Conditions :

Battery walls - Heat Flux of 250 w/m2

Inlet - Velocity Inlet at 6 m/s at 300 K

Outlet - Pressure outlet at 0 Gauge Pressure and 300 K

Battery Casing - Wall BC

Symmetry Plane - Symmetry BC