Battery Rate Capability
Application ID: 119181
This app demonstrates the usage of a surrogate model function for predicting the rate capability of an NMC111/graphite battery cell. The rate capability is shown in a Ragone plot. The surrogate function, a Deep Neural Network, has been fitted to a subset of the possible input data values. Three input data values can be set: the thickness of the negative electrode, the active material volume fraction of the negative electrode, and the active material volume fraction of the positive electrode. The low computational cost of evaluating the surrogate function allows sliders to be used to interactively adjust the input values and predict the Ragone plot for any combination of input values. Once a promising combination of values has been identified, the actual physical Li-ion battery model can be computed for those input values, to verify the predictions of the surrogate model. In addition, the then computed physical data can be used to further improve the surrogate model.
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