Battery Pack Temperature Distribution Simulation with COMSOL and MATLAB®

M. Masomtob[1], C. Schaeper[1], W. Zhou[1], D. Uwe Sauer[1]
[1]Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems Group, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Published in 2012

This work is to present an implementation of COMSOL with MATLAB® [1] for the liquid cooling system of a battery pack based on the physics in COMSOL. The m.file of a model of battery module from COMSOL 4.2 is exported and modified to run in MATLAB®, as well as is managed by using another m.file. The advantage of running the model of COMSOL in MATLAB® is that each part in system built in COMSOL 4.2 or MATLAB® can be combined together and simulated at the same time in MATLAB®. Moreover, the results are also easy to monitor and collect in MATLAB thanks to MATLAB®’s functionality.