The global scaling up of battery adoption across different industries offers numerous opportunities. However, it also brings several challenges: defining the optimal battery solution for specific applications, evaluating end-of-life scenarios to support recycling and repurposing strategies, tackling regulatory and policy barriers. Researchers are exploring new materials and designs with improved battery efficiency, reduced costs, and increased safety to enhance the battery applicability across various industries.
BATTERY SIMULATION SOLUTIONS
CHALLENGES IN BATTERY DEVELOPMENT
GT SOLUTIONS FOR BATTERY DEVELOPMENT
FLEXIBLE CELL DESIGN
Form Factor Flexibility: Analyze different battery form factors and optimize associated design parameters
Innovative Design Exploration: Evaluate out-of-the-box solutions to enhance overall cell performance
Design Parameter Optimization: Fine-tune critical aspects such as:
- Electrode porosity
- Separator thickness
- Tab location
- Anode overhang
Leverage GT’s powerful tools for fast, intelligent optimization:
- Design of Experiments (DOE) for sensitivity studies
- Design Optimizer for multi-objective tuning
- Distributed Computing for high-speed simulations across large parameter sets
- Validated, Comprehensive Material Database: Access a library of the most widely used, industry-validated materials for immediate implementation
- Continuous Material Database Updates: Stay ahead with ongoing updates that integrate the latest and most advanced materials on the market
PREDICTIVE ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Load and Temperature: Predict battery response under flexible loads conditions and temperatures, ensuring reliable performance across extreme conditions and supporting control strategies
Standard cycling loads: Analyze battery performance under both standard and application-specific cycling patterns to optimize longevity and performance in real-world, high-demand scenarios.
Next-generation batteries: Stay up to date with the latest battery technologies. Within GT-AutoLion you can effortlessly predict the behavior of Na-ion, Solid State, and Li-Metal batteries technology
System Integration: Seamlessly integrate electrochemical or electro-thermal models into system-level simulation to study battery performance over standard drive cycles (automotive), flight cycles (aerospace), operational cycles (marine), and varying weather conditions (grid storage).
BATTERY AGING
Physics-Based Aging Models: Accurately predict battery degradation over time
- SEI layer growth
- CEI layer growth
- Active material isolation & cracking
- Electrolyte dry-out and pore clogging
- Li-plating
Reduce Testing Time and Cost: Replace lengthy and expensive physical aging tests with high-fidelity virtual simulations
Predict Real-World Aging Scenarios: Model battery aging under realistic load profiles, temperature conditions, and usage patterns
Understand the Impact of Battery Aging on System-Level Performance: Integrate aged-cell performance data into full vehicle or device simulations using GT-SUITE
SWELLING AND DEFORMATION
Multiphysics Coupled Model: Integrated electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical modeling delivers high-fidelity predictions of battery behavior
Stress & Strain Tracking Across Lifecycle: Analyze how internal stress evolves with cycling, usage patterns, and environmental conditions—helping identify mechanical fatigue and potential failure points
3D Visualization of Mechanical Response: Gain a full-field view of stress and strain distribution across the cell with spatial outputs
BATTERY PACK THERMAL MANAGEMENT
Cooling Strategy Optimization: Evaluate cooling channel layouts, heat sink designs, and thermal interface materials in realistic system conditions to improve efficiency, and safety
Design for Safety & Regulatory Compliance: Support design decisions that minimize thermal propagation risks and meet safety standards
3D CAD Battery Pack Model Build: Semi-automated conversion method to create mechanical model from imported 3D geometry
CONTROL DESIGN STRATEGIES
Deep Behavioral Insight for Real-World Conditions: Access highly accurate electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical models that reveal complex battery behavior across usage scenarios
- Design detailed control strategies, within GT-SUITE in co-simulation with external tools, based on accurate physics-based simulation
- Produce best in class SOC, SOH, and battery pack cell balance algorithms
- Generate current surface map generation
- Validate multi-physics integrated systems thermal control strategies
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Webinars

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Using Simulation for Real-Time Predictive Battery Modeling for State Estimation and Control
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Combining 1D and 3D Multi-Physics Modeling Methods for Thermal Runaway Propagation Analysis
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Accelerating Maritime Electrification through Battery Digital Twin Simulation Solutions
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Building a Lithium-Ion Cell Electrochemical Model Using GT-SUITE
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