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Lattice Optimization for Porous Electrodes

Lattice Optimization for Porous Electrodes (LOPE)

Overview

This code performs an optimization over the structure of a porous electrode formed from a lattice of unit cells. This is a steepest descent version of the code used in:

V. A. Beck, J. J. Wong, C. F. Jekel, D. A. Tortorelli, S. E. Baker, E. B. Duoss and M. A. Worsley, Computational design of microarchitected porous electrodes for redox flow batteries, J. Power Sources, 2021, 512, 230453.

Please cite the reference above https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230453, and/or the code https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220413.1 if using any of this code in your own work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220413.1

Build

The code requires installation of OpenFOAM. This code was tested using OpenFOAM v4.1. The code is compiled using the standard openFOAM command "wmake"

cd echemLatticeSmooth
wmake

Run

The compiled code can be run after building a computational mesh

cd run01
blockMesh
echemLatticeSmoothSD

LLNL Release Number: LLNL-CODE-833809