KAMETANI YUKINORI
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology
   Position   Senior Assistant Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2019
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Topology optimization of electrolyte-electrode interfaces of solid oxide fuel cells based on the adjoint method
Contribution Type Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
Volume, Issue, Page 166(13),pp.F876-F888
Author and coauthor Junya Onishi, Yukinori Kametani, Yosuke Hasegawa, Naoki Shikazono
Details Topology optimization is conducted to find the optimal meso-scale structure for the electrolyte-anode interfaces of solid oxide fuel cells. In the present optimization method, the total reaction current in the anode is chosen as an objective function to be maximized. The adjoint method is applied to compute the sensitivity of the objective function with respect to the interface shape, which is considered as the design variable. A cylindrical pillar structure is used as an initial guess and is iteratively modified according to the optimization procedure. From the optimization results, it is shown that the optimal structure has multiple branches at the top side and characteristic sub-structures like wrinkles at the bottom side.
DOI 10.1149/2.0031913jes
ISSN 0013-4651