{"id":6091,"date":"2014-10-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Better-Battery-Thermal-Management-with-Co-Simulation\/ba-p\/277731"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:57:44","slug":"better-battery-thermal-management-with-co-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/better-battery-thermal-management-with-co-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Battery Thermal Management with Co-Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 345px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/9541i7A0FAEAB3C8E58D0\/image-dimensions\/345x345?v=1.0\" width=\"345\" height=\"345\" alt=\"battery_2.jpg\" title=\"battery_2.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Temperature is a critical parameter for Lithium-Ion batteries and co-simulation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-simulation\/thermal-analysis\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Thermal<\/A>&nbsp;and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/lms\/imagine-lab\/amesim\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;Simcenter Amesim<\/A> leads to further insights into this effects of this parameter.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>This is just a glimpse into innovative research done at ITAQ (Institut de Transports Avanc\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec) into battery management. ITAQ does research &amp; testing validation in various areas including electric &amp; hybrid vehicles. As such, battery design is a key component.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>This presentation by Pierre-Luc Lapointe of ITAQ entitled &#8220;Co-simulation Applied to Li-On Batteries&#8221; goes on to discuss the influence of temperature on the behaviour of the charging capacity of batteries. The key focus of the&nbsp;research was to optimize the cooling of the battery.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>This is a challenging problem at the best of times but the innovative approach used by Pierre-Luc is to co-simulate an electro-chemical simulation in Amesim and a thermal solution in NX Thermal.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 548px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/9543iF1CC9D992925F043\/image-dimensions\/548x151?v=1.0\" width=\"548\" height=\"151\" alt=\"cosimulation.jpg\" title=\"cosimulation.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>I had the chance to talk briefly with Pierre-Luc last week and one of the benefits he found was co-simulation provided <EM>more insights<\/EM> into battery design than by using both 1D or 3D software independently.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Sounds interesting? If so watch this space as we&#8217;ll reveal more about this fascinating research later this week. In addition we&#8217;ll be blogging all week from this years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/events_webinars\/cae-test-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAE &amp; Test Symposium<\/A>&nbsp;where you&#8217;ll hear of many more such topics!<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Stay Tuned!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8211; Ganesh<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n  Temperature is a critical parameter for Lithium-Ion batteries and co-simulation with NX Thermal&nbsp;and&nbsp;Simcenter Amesim leads to further insights into this effects of this parameter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56480,"featured_media":6094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,182],"tags":[5,16],"industry":[],"product":[577,590],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks","tag-cae-simulation","tag-system-simulation","product-simcenter-3d","product-simcenter-amesim"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/battery_2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}