Authors: Zul Hilmi Che Daud, Daniela Chrenko, Fabien Dos Santos, El-Hassane Aglzim, Luis Le Moyne
A lithium ion battery is analyzed with regard to its thermal behaviour using modelling. Therefore resistive energy losses are translated into generated heat inside the battery, which is evacuated by forced convection, thus forming an electro-thermal model. Based on that model, simulations are done using OpenFOAM. The simulation underlines the observation that batteries have higher temperature close to the connectors and that temperature increase depends highly on discharge rate.