Oak Ridge National Laboratory
April 1, 2015 – Designers of safe high-performance batteries for electric vehicles are getting a hand with a new computational toolset created by a team led by Sreekanth Pannala and John Turner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The software simulates key battery performance indicators, including charge and thermal transport, electrochemical reactions and battery mechanical stresses. This capability will accelerate the research and design process for academic, national laboratory and industry users. “We developed integrated tools so that one doesn’t have to employ different performance models for different applications,” Pannala said.