Electric vehicles are seen as the prevailing choice for eco-friendly transportation. In electric vehicles, the thermal management system of battery cells is of great significance, especially under high operating temperatures and continuous discharge conditions. To address this issue, a pack-level battery thermal management system with phase change materials and liquid cooling was discussed in this paper. A dynamic electro-thermal coupled model for cells, the enthalpy–porosity model for phase change materials, and the k-ε model for the coolant flow were used. Various parameters, such as ambient temperatures, discharge rates, components of phase change materials, inlet mass flow rates, and temperatures of the coolant were considered. The results indicated that a battery thermal management system with both phase change materials and liquid cooling is more effective than the one with only liquid cooling. The phase change material with a mass fraction of 10% expanded graphite in paraffin wax had a favorable performance for the battery thermal management system. Additionally, increasing the mass flow rate or decreasing the flow temperature of the coolant can reduce the maximum temperature of the battery pack. However, the former can limit the maximum temperature difference, while the latter will deteriorate the temperature uniformity. The present work may shed light on the design of battery thermal management systems in the electric vehicle industry.

In this paper, experimental and numerical study has been carried out to investigate impingement cooling with a row of five circular jets, varied between target positions on a realistic leading edge region of gas turbine blade geometry. Experimental data is collected from a transient thermochromic liquid crystal measurement technique at the target surface. Numerical study was conducted with the geometry using commercial computational fluid dynamics software to analyze the fluid flow. The unique aims of the study are to observe the effects of variation in jet location, and those specific to realistic target and nozzle geometries. Distributions of local and average Nusselt number show that a location targeting the concave surface at 90° demonstrates an overall higher heat transfer coefficient, especially in the stagnation region, and toward the airfoil sides, with significantly fewer swirls. The experiment was performed with the following parameters: distance from nozzle to target of 1.7 to 2.1 jet diameters, pitch between jets of 4.4 jet diameters, and concave target diameter of 8.0 jet diameters. The jet Reynolds number range during this test was 20,000 − 40,000. A standard flat target plate impingement test is also experimentally conducted and compared against existing literature for method validation.