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Battery Design Blog Posts

Simulating Thermal Propagation in a Battery Pack

June 3, 2024

When batteries overheat, there’s more at stake than just losing the pack. By modeling thermal runaway, you can prevent problems before they arise.

How to Define Load Cycles in Battery Models

January 18, 2024

Specifying a load profile is critical when modeling a battery system. Explore several approaches for doing so in COMSOL Multiphysics® and the Battery Design Module.

Analyzing Thermal Distribution in a Li-Ion Battery Pack

May 11, 2022

Deviating from optimal operating temperatures in a Li-ion battery pack can cause performance losses or even failure. Learn how to optimize the power design to control the temperature distribution.

Improving Tabbing Design in Cylindrical Batteries

March 22, 2022

A major electric vehicle and battery manufacturer announced a new “tabless” design concept for cylindrical lithium-ion batteries. In this blog post, we explore this concept with simulation.

Approaching an Electrochemical Model from Scratch: Lemon Battery

May 5, 2020

The lemon battery: A high school chemistry experiment, and a great example when learning the general process for how to set up electrochemistry and battery models from scratch.

Estimating Parameters for a Li-Ion Battery via a Lumped Model

October 24, 2019

When performing an electrochemical analysis on a battery, an engineer might not have all of the information from the manufacturer. The solution? Parameter estimation via a lumped model…

Analyzing the Liquid Cooling of a Li-Ion Battery Pack

October 17, 2019

A sudden temperature increase or decrease can affect the efficiency of a lithium-ion battery. For the battery packs used in electric vehicles and other application areas, this can be a problem…

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Celebrates Li-Ion Battery Research

October 11, 2019

John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, come from different places and researched lithium-ion batteries at different times.


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