A-02 Modeling 1

Sunday, 1 October 2017: 13:40-16:00
Maryland A (Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center)
Chairs:
Jeffrey S Allen and Makoto Uchida
13:40
(Invited) Mechanistic Study of PEMFC Reversible Voltage Degradation through Experiment and Modeling
J. Zhang (General Motors Company, Global Fuel Cell Activities) and W. Gu (Global Fuel Cell Business, General Motors)
14:20
Theoretical Modeling of Catalyst Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Different Fabrication Processes and Analysis of the Morphologies
H. Ishikawa (Panasonic corporation), Y. Sugawara (Panasonic Corporation), and M. Uchida (Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, University of Yamanashi)
15:00
A Pore Network Modelling Study of Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers with Patterned Wettability
A. Forner-Cuenca (Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute), H. Brandvold (Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institut), M. A. Hoeh (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), V. Manzi-Orezzoli (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. J. Schmidt (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich), and P. Boillat (LEC, Paul Scherrer Institute)
15:20
Multiscale Numerical Model for Contact Resistance Prediction in the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
D. Qiu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, IEK-3 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), L. Peng, P. Yi, X. Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), H. Janßen (IEK-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), and W. Lehnert (IEK-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University)
15:40
PGM-Free Electrode Microstructure Analysis and Transport Modeling
F. Cetinbas, N. N. Kariuki, R. Ahluwalia (Argonne National Laboratory), H. T. Chung, P. Zelenay (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and D. J. Myers (Argonne National Laboratory)