Numerical Study on Performance Enhancement of the Air-Cooled Battery Thermal Management System by Adding Parallel Plates

Air-cooled battery thermal management system (BTMS) technology is commonly used to control the temperature distribution of pack in an electric vehicle. In this study, parallel plates are introduced improve cooling efficiency BTMS, which can change airflow pack. Firstly, effect number on performance BTMS investigated; within acceptable range power consumption loss, model with two shows best efficiency, and Tmax ?Tmax reduced by 2.42 3.46 K, respectively. Then, influences length height studied; optimal values for 1.5 30 mm, Finally, conclusions drawn above design three optimization schemes four plates; be improved efficiently, illustrates feasibility conclusions. Compared original model, are, respectively, 3.37 K (6.17%) 5.5 (71.9%) after optimization.