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Multi-length-scale thermal modeling of lithium-ion batteries from sub-cell to pack

2025· article· en· W4415592261 on OpenAlexafffund
Óscar Álvarez, Carlos M. Da Silva, Cristina H. Amon

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Thermal Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Battery Technologies Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacsOntario Research FoundationCMC Microsystems
KeywordsBattery (electricity)Battery packThermalRange (aeronautics)Reliability (semiconductor)Heat generationWork (physics)Power (physics)

Abstract

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Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become the preferred power source for electric vehicles (EVs) due to their superior characteristics compared to other storage technologies. Battery thermal management systems are paramount for optimal performance and reliability, to maintain EV battery packs operating within a tight temperature range (25–40 °C) while keeping spatial temperature uniformity. EV battery packs are advanced engineering systems that exhibit hierarchical thermal transport across multiple length scales and physical domains, ranging from electrodes to sub-cell, cell, module, pack, and vehicle domains. This paper presents a novel cost-effective multi-length-scale methodology designed for modeling thermal transport in EV battery packs hierarchically, following successive incremental sub-domain thermal analyses and transferring effective anisotropic thermophysical properties and distributed heat generation rates across sub-cell, cell, module, and pack domains. Through a detailed industry-relevant case study of a pouch-cell-based EV battery pack, this work demonstrates the implementation of this hierarchical methodology and its ability to evaluate how design modifications at different scales influence the system’s thermal performance. This hierarchical multi-length-scale methodology enables the quantification of how changes in the design of a component at smaller scales impact the overall performance and reliability of the entire system.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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