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Technical University of Munich

Rui Fang, M.Sc.

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Research

  • FELIKS project (with BMW AG and AdCo Engineering GW GmbH): "Mechanical-electrochemical simulation environment for solid-state electrolytes in lithium-ion cells on microstructure level"
  • EEBatt project (with VARTA AG and others): "Distributed stationary battery storage systems for the efficient use of renewable energies and support of grid stability"
  • Electrochemical power sources
  • Development and validation of new numerical methods for finite element simulations of lithium-ion battery cells
  • Coupling of non-conforming meshes for scalar transport and electrochemistry
  • Transport phenomena
  • Particle methods for electrode microstructures in lithium-ion batteries

Teaching

Presentations

  •   Wolfgang A. Wall, Jonas Biehler, Rui Fang: Challenges and Potential of Simulation Methods for All Solid State Batteries, 5th Munich Battery Discussions, Garching bei München, Germany, March 13–14, 2017.
  • Rui Fang, Wolfgang A. Wall: A three-dimensional, thermodynamic, coupled model for fully resolved finite element simulations of lithium-ion batteries, 2nd Symposium by the Munich Student Chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), Garching bei München, Germany, November 29, 2016.
  • Rui Fang, Wolfgang A. Wall: A three-dimensional, thermodynamic, coupled model for fully resolved finite element simulations of lithium-ion batteries, 7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), Hersonissos, Greece, June 5–10, 2016.
  • Rui Fang, Andreas Ehrl, Tobias Crönert, Sebastian Pröll, Wolfgang A. Wall: A three-dimensional, coupled model for resolved finite element simulations of lithium-ion batteries, 1st Workshop by the Munich Student Chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), Garching bei München, Germany, October 22, 2015.
  • Rui Fang, Andreas Ehrl, Wolfgang A. Wall: A three-dimensional, coupled model for fully resolved finite element simulations of lithium-ion batteries, 6th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Aachen, Germany, July 20–23, 2015.
  • Rui Fang, Stefan Lenz: Analyse von Rohrbündel-Wärmeübertragern durch CFD-Simulationen mit hinterlegten empirischen Korrelationen, Jahrestreffen der Fachgruppen Computational Fluid Dynamics und Fluidverfahrenstechnik, ProcessNet, Weimar, Germany, March 12–14, 2012.

Supervised Student Theses

  • Dominik Stahl: Vergleich zwischen 1D- und 3D-Simulationen von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien mittels der Finite-Elemente-Methode, Research Internship, September 12–November 21, 2017.
  • Felicitas Engel: A Multiscale Finite Element Model for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Bachelor Thesis, April 27–October 26, 2017.
  • Alexander Angerer: A partitioned algorithm for finite element simulations of electrochemical and thermal processes inside lithium-ion batteries, Bachelor Thesis, November 15, 2016–May 12, 2017.
  • Christoph Haslinger: Discrete element modeling of mechanical contact between ellipsoidal particles, Term Paper, September 19, 2016–March 18, 2017.
  • Alexander Rupp: Modeling and simulation of structural effects inside solid-state batteries, Master Thesis, September 1, 2016–February 28, 2017.
  • Mykyta Denysov: Monolithic, mortar-based interface coupling for thermodynamic finite element simulations of lithium-ion cells, Bachelor Thesis, May 4–November 3, 2016.
  • Yiheng Yang: A Multi-Scale Finite Element Model for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Bachelor Thesis, April 11–November 22, 2016.
  • Christoph Schmidt: Finite Element Analysis of Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Batteries, Master Thesis, April 11–October 10, 2016.
  • Maximilian Wurzer: Investigation of linear solvers for finite element models of lithium-ion batteries, Term Paper, April 11–October 10, 2016.
  • Franziska Ochsenfarth: Diskrete-Elemente-Modellierung der Volumenänderung von Elektroden in Lithium-Ionen-Batterien während des Lade- und Entladevorgangs, Bachelor Thesis, December 7, 2015–June 6, 2016.
  • Johannes Liebertseder: A Multi-Scale Finite Element Model for Scalar Transport Problems, Term Paper, October 12, 2015–April 11, 2016.
  • Boris Link: Monolithic Interface Coupling for Electrochemistry Problems based on Mortar Approaches, Bachelor Thesis, April 20–October 19, 2015.
  • Tobias Crönert: Monolithic Finite Element Simulation of Electrochemical Processes and Thermal Effects in Li-ion Batteries, Bachelor Thesis, June 16–September 25, 2015.
  • Sebastian Pröll: Homogenized and fully resolved finite element models for lithium-ion batteries, Bachelor Thesis, April 8–September 25, 2015.

Myself

  • since 2012: Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany.
  • Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, USA, 2012.
  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering and Management, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2011.
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