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In this paper a gas mixture model is developed to study anisotropic hydrogen and water vapour flow in anode of the PEM fuel cell. Dependence of the distribution of concentrations and fluxes of the of gas components in anisotropic porous layer is investigated. First full partial differential equations describing mass transport for permeability and diffusivity tensors based on Darcy’s and Fick’s laws are developed. Next this set of nonlinear equations together with appropriate nonlinear boundary conditions using finite element method was solved. At the end an illustrative example is given.
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Kurgan, E., Schmidt, P. (2004). Mathematical Model of Gas Transport in Anisotropic Porous Electrode of the PEM Fuel Cell. In: Bubak, M., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science - ICCS 2004. ICCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24687-9_31
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