QuickerSim Battery Explorer (Q-Bat)

Simple 0-D or 1-D battery simulation models suffer from limited accuracy and lack of coefficients. Full-scale CFD models require even a month of geometry and mesh building. With our flexible battery configurator, you can import your cooling plate CAD files and use predefined cell layouts. You can build your battery model within a day.

In most e-mobility applications, transient states are most significant. A car rarely drives at a constant speed. Driving and electric power profiles vary dramatically in time. Full-scale CFD models require hours or days on supercomputers to calculate such cases. We have built a detailed finite element model and applied smart model order reduction to the space of thermal eigenmodes. It also handles nonlinear material properties and varying mass flow of the coolant. For real-life cases, the simulation goes in approximately real-time. Do you need to check 15 minutes of driving profile? With Q-Bat, it will take 15 minutes of your desktop, not a supercomputer.

Real battery cells experience non-uniform temperature distribution. It isn’t healthy for them – it may accelerate degradation and aging. That’s why Q-Bat, unlike simple software models, shows the exact temperature distribution within the cells to deliver complete 3D data for battery cooling design.

Most of the Q-Bat models are implemented in MATLAB^®. Q-Bat uses the MATLAB language as a text user interface for model definition. During model reduction, the user can set the parallel model flag, which tells Q-Bat to use Parallel Computing Toolbox™. After the reduction process, the user can export the battery pack model to Simulink^® as a MATLAB System block.

To learn more about Q-Bat, visit the Q-Bat Website.

You can register and download the Lite version of Q-Bat for Free here: https://licensing.quickersim.com.