TherMET Annual Workshop 2023

TherMET’s first annual workshop featured five innovative interdisciplinary projects on batteries, power electronics, and integration technologies for electric vehicles and stationary battery energy storage systems. Our students, researchers, industry partners, and collaborators highlighted TherMET training and research initiatives in collaboration with the Advanced Thermofluids Optimization, Modelling, and Simulation (ATOMS) Laboratory, Laboratory for Strategic Materials (LSM), University of Toronto Electric Vehicle (UTEV) Research Centre, Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT), and the READY Lab.

Featured Interdisciplinary Projects

• Implementation of a topologically optimized heat sink for non-uniform heat fluxes in an electric vehicle fast charger

• Enhanced metal-ion adsorption and diffusion in two-dimensional C3N/Black phosphorene heterostructures: A multidisciplinary computational-experimental approach for next-generation batteries

• Deep co-design of electric vehicle batteries: Streamlining the interdisciplinary electro-thermal design process for future automation

• Coupled thermo-electrochemical modelling framework for predicting lithium-ion battery performance and degradation

• Surrogate model-based design optimization framework for electric vehicle battery thermal management systems