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59 Citations
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A Review on Thermal Behaviors and Thermal Management Systems for Supercapacitors

  • Wei Zhou,
  • Zhien Liu,
  • Wan Chen,
  • Xianzhong Sun,
  • Maji Luo,
  • Xiaohu Zhang,
  • Chen Li,
  • Yabin An,
  • Shuang Song and
  • Xiong Zhang
  • + 1 author

10 February 2023

As a representative electrochemical energy storage device, supercapacitors (SCs) feature higher energy density than traditional capacitors and better power density and cycle life compared to lithium-ion batteries, which explains why they are extensiv...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,836 Views
24 Pages

Comparative Review of Thermal Management Systems for BESS

  • Nixon Kerwa Mdachi and
  • Chang Choong-koo

The integration of renewable energy sources necessitates effective thermal management of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to maintain grid stability. This study aims to address this need by examining various thermal management approaches for BES...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,274 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Sensor Applications in Electric Vehicle Thermal Management Systems

  • Anyu Cheng,
  • Yi Xin,
  • Hang Wu,
  • Lixin Yang and
  • Banghuai Deng

3 July 2023

With the rapid development of the automotive industry, the application of sensors is of great importance in maintaining the reliability of electric vehicles and ensuring the safe operation of electric vehicles. Faced with the increasing data of therm...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,119 Views
37 Pages

5 May 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as powerful tools for transporting temperature-sensitive payloads, including medical supplies, biological samples, and research materials, to remote or hard-to-reach locations. Effective thermal management...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,873 Views
17 Pages

Analysis and Optimization of Coupled Thermal Management Systems Used in Vehicles

  • Gequn Shu,
  • Chen Hu,
  • Hua Tian,
  • Xiaoya Li,
  • Zhigang Yu and
  • Mingtao Wang

2 April 2019

About 2/3 of the combustion energy of internal combustion engine (ICE) is lost through the exhaust and cooling systems during its operation. Besides, automobile accessories like the air conditioning system and the radiator fan will bring additional p...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,450 Views
23 Pages

15 October 2025

Battery Thermal Management Systems (BTMS) are essential for ensuring the performance, safety, and longevity of lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion) in electric vehicles (EVs). First, this review examines the current state of BTMS technologies, focusing on...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,107 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2024

Projects related to green aviation designed to achieve fuel savings and emission reductions are increasingly being established in response to growing concerns over climate change. Within the aviation industry, there is a growing trend towards the ele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,634 Views
24 Pages

A Study on Thermal Management Systems for Hybrid–Electric Aircraft

  • Maria Coutinho,
  • Frederico Afonso,
  • Alain Souza,
  • David Bento,
  • Ricardo Gandolfi,
  • Felipe R. Barbosa,
  • Fernando Lau and
  • Afzal Suleman

23 August 2023

The electrification of an aircraft’s propulsive system is identified as a potential solution towards a lower carbon footprint in the aviation industry. One of the effects of increased electrification is the generation of a large amount of waste...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,698 Views
22 Pages

Thermal Management Systems for Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles: A Review

  • Kenia Yadira Gómez Díaz,
  • Susana Estefany De León Aldaco,
  • Jesus Aguayo Alquicira,
  • Mario Ponce Silva,
  • Samuel Portillo Contreras and
  • Oscar Sánchez Vargas

Recently, electric vehicles (EVs) have proven to be a practical option for lowering greenhouse gas emissions and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Lithium-ion batteries, at the core of this innovation, require efficient thermal management to ensure...

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  • Open Access
70 Citations
6,269 Views
15 Pages

Comprehensive Passive Thermal Management Systems for Electric Vehicles

  • Hamidreza Behi,
  • Danial Karimi,
  • Rekabra Youssef,
  • Mahesh Suresh Patil,
  • Joeri Van Mierlo and
  • Maitane Berecibar

28 June 2021

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have emerged as a promising energy source for electric vehicle (EV) applications owing to the solution offered by their high power, high specific energy, no memory effect, and their excellent durability. However, they g...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,845 Views
25 Pages

25 January 2023

The thermal management and reduction of energy consumption in cooling systems have become major trends with the continued growth of high heat dissipation data centers and the challenging energy situation. However, the existing studies have been limit...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,992 Views
32 Pages

25 January 2024

The DOC (diesel oxidation catalyst), DPF (diesel particulate filter), SCR (selective catalytic reduction), and ASC (ammonia slip catalyst) are widely used in diesel exhaust after-treatment systems. The thermal management of after-treatment systems us...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,328 Views
21 Pages

11 June 2025

This work studies the feasibility of integrating a hydrogen-powered propulsion system in a regional aircraft at the conceptual design level. The developed system consists of fuel cells, which will be studied at three technological levels, and batteri...

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  • Open Access
81 Citations
12,864 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2018

This paper examines and analytically reviews the thermal management systems proposed over the past six decades for gas turbine civil aero engines. The objective is to establish the evident system shortcomings and to identify the remaining research qu...

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  • Open Access
113 Citations
6,297 Views
21 Pages

18 January 2023

Phase change materials (PCMs) proved to be valuable and drew the attention of numerous scientists striving to establish novel techniques to minimize energy consumption and expand heat storage; yet a number of challenges hampered their research. This...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,527 Views
46 Pages

15 March 2023

Electric vehicles battery systems (EVBS) are subject to complex charging/discharging processes that produce various amount of stress and cause significant temperature fluctuations. Due to the variable heat generation regimes, latent heat storage syst...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
26,392 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2024

Side-channel attacks (SCAs) are powerful techniques used to recover keys from electronic devices by exploiting various physical leakages, such as power, timing, and heat. Although heat is one of the less frequently analyzed channels due to the high n...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,860 Views
20 Pages

Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management Systems: A Survey and New CFD Results

  • Morena Falcone,
  • Eleonora Palka Bayard De Volo,
  • Ali Hellany,
  • Claudio Rossi and
  • Beatrice Pulvirenti

14 December 2021

The environment has gained significant importance in recent years, and companies involved in several technology fields are moving in the direction of eco-friendly solutions. One of the most discussed topics in the automotive field is lithium-ion batt...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
24,168 Views
34 Pages

18 December 2023

The power battery is an important component of new energy vehicles, and thermal safety is the key issue in its development. During charging and discharging, how to enhance the rapid and uniform heat dissipation of power batteries has become a hotspot...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,199 Views
31 Pages

28 October 2023

With the development of high-power fuel cell vehicles, heat dissipation requirements have become increasingly stringent. Although conventional cooling techniques improve the heat dissipation capacity by increasing the fan rotating speed or radiator d...

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  • Open Access
1,336 Views
25 Pages

22 May 2025

The thermal management system (TMS) of electric vehicles (EVs) plays a pivotal role in vehicle performance, driving range, battery lifespan, and passenger comfort. Precise control of compressor speed, informed by real-time sensor data, is essential f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,915 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Quick Temperature Prediction Algorithm for Battery Thermal Management Systems Based on a Flat Heat Pipe

  • Weifeng Li,
  • Yi Xie,
  • Wei Li,
  • Yueqi Wang,
  • Dan Dan,
  • Yuping Qian and
  • Yangjun Zhang

Predicting the core temperature of a Li-ion battery is crucial for precise state estimation, but it is difficult to directly measure. Existing quick temperature-predicting approaches can hardly consider the thermal mass of complex structure that may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,821 Views
24 Pages

This study investigates a hybrid-battery thermal management system (BTMS) integrating air-cooling, a cold plate, and porous materials to optimize heat dissipation in a 20-cell battery pack during charging and discharging cycles of up to 5C. A computa...

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42 Citations
15,944 Views
28 Pages

Li-ion batteries are crucial for sustainable energy, powering electric vehicles, and supporting renewable energy storage systems for solar and wind power integration. Keeping these batteries at temperatures between 285 K and 310 K is crucial for opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,766 Views
30 Pages

22 January 2025

In electric vehicles (EVs), the batteries are arranged in the battery pack (BP), which has a small layout space and difficulty in dissipating heat. Therefore, in EVs, the battery thermal management systems (BTMSs) are critical to managing heat to ens...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,924 Views
24 Pages

Advanced Thermal Management Systems for High-Power Lithium-Ion Capacitors: A Comprehensive Review

  • Danial Karimi,
  • Hamidreza Behi,
  • Joeri Van Mierlo and
  • Maitane Berecibar

The acceleration demand from the driver in electric vehicles (EVs) should be supported by high-power energy storage systems (ESSs). In order to satisfy the driver’s request, the employed ESS should have high power densities. On the other hand, high e...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,558 Views
22 Pages

29 June 2023

The multiway valve is the core component of the integrated thermal management system in an electric vehicle, and its heat transfer loss and pressure loss significantly impact the performance of the whole thermal management system. In this paper, heat...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,386 Views
26 Pages

The growing complexities, power densities, and cooling demands of modern electronic systems and batteries—such as three-dimensional integrated circuit chip packaging, printed circuit board assemblies, and electronics enclosures—have pushe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
23 Pages

Flow Loss and Transient Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Multi-Way Valve for Thermal Management Systems in New Energy Vehicles

  • Dehong Meng,
  • Xiaoxia Sun,
  • Yongwei Zhai,
  • Li Wang,
  • Panpan Song,
  • Mingshan Wei,
  • Ran Tian and
  • Lili Shen

6 January 2026

With the rapid advancement of integrated thermal management systems (ITMS) for new energy vehicles (NEVs), flow losses and hydrodynamic characteristics within multi-way valves have become critical determinants of system performance. In this study, a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,885 Views
26 Pages

6 October 2022

This paper presents the optimal operation of a building energy management system (BEMS), with combined heat and power (CHP) generation, thermal energy storage (TES), and battery energy storage (BES), subject to load demand uncertainty. The main objec...

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538 Views
27 Pages

Thermal Management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Power Systems Using Ducted Forced Convection and Computational Fluid Dynamic Validation

  • Eleftherios Nikolaou,
  • Spyridon Kilimtzidis,
  • Efthymios Giannaros,
  • Vaios Lappas and
  • Vassilis Kostopoulos

25 November 2025

The increasing power density of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has intensified the need for the efficient thermal management of their propulsion and electronic subsystems. This paper presents a systematic multi-fidelity methodology for the design an...

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  • Open Access
164 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2026

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are currently widely used in the electric vehicle sector and have become one of the core components of new energy vehicles. To ensure that the maximum temperature (Tmax) and maximum temperature difference (∆Tmax) re...

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123 Citations
23,467 Views
18 Pages

Towards an Ultimate Battery Thermal Management System: A Review

  • Mohammad Rezwan Khan,
  • Maciej Jozef Swierczynski and
  • Søren Knudsen Kær

The prevailing standards and scientific literature offer a wide range of options for the construction of a battery thermal management system (BTMS). The design of an innovative yet well-functioning BTMS requires strict supervision, quality audit and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,210 Views
17 Pages

Influence of the Design Parameters of a Fuel Thermal Management System on Its Thermal Endurance

  • Liping Pang,
  • Shuxin Li,
  • Meng Liu,
  • Rong A,
  • Aicheng Li and
  • Fanxin Meng

27 June 2018

The aerodynamic heating of a high-speed vehicle is destined to lead to a continuous fuselage temperature rise. However, its airborne thermal load rises exponentially. This will severely limit the thermal endurance of the high-speed vehicle and the wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,298 Views
26 Pages

15 February 2024

With an increase in global warming, battery electric vehicles (BEVs), which are environmentally friendly, have been rapidly commercialized to replace conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines. Unlike traditional internal combustion engin...

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65 Citations
10,699 Views
29 Pages

A Review of the Power Battery Thermal Management System with Different Cooling, Heating and Coupling System

  • Xingxing Wang,
  • Shengren Liu,
  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Shuaishuai Lv,
  • Hongjun Ni,
  • Yelin Deng and
  • Yinnan Yuan

8 March 2022

The battery thermal management system is a key skill that has been widely used in power battery cooling and preheating. It can ensure that the power battery operates safely and stably at a suitable temperature. In this article, we summarize mainly su...

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  • Article
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5 Citations
2,412 Views
15 Pages

20 January 2025

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is gaining attention as a solution to urban population growth and air pollution. Hydrogen fuel cells are applied to overcome the limitations of battery-based UAM, utilizing a PEMFC (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell) wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,215 Views
16 Pages

4 August 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,928 Views
16 Pages

Design of Cylindrical Thermal Dummy Cell for Development of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management System

  • Wei Li,
  • Shusheng Xiong,
  • Xiaojun Zhou,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Chongming Wang,
  • Xianke Lin and
  • Junjie Cheng

2 March 2021

This paper aims to design thermal dummy cells (TDCs) that can be used in the development of lithium-ion battery thermal management systems. Based on physical property and geometry of real 18,650 cylindrical cells, a three-dimensional model of TDCs wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
407 Views
30 Pages

Battery Electric Vehicle Thermal Management System Modelling and Validation

  • Perla Yadav,
  • Lakith Jinadasa,
  • Alex Wray,
  • Simon Petrovich,
  • Marios Georgiou and
  • Kambiz Ebrahimi

5 January 2026

Improving the architecture and control strategies of thermal management systems (TMSs) is crucial for minimizing energy consumption in heating and cooling components, thereby enhancing the driving range of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,364 Views
24 Pages

Design and On-Orbit Performance of the Payload Rack Thermal Management System for China Space Station Experimental Lab Module

  • Dong Guo,
  • Ming Xie,
  • Xinlin Xia,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Jing Xue,
  • Jiaokun Cao,
  • Ze Wang,
  • Qiang Sheng and
  • Ke Wang

30 March 2024

An efficient and reliable spacecraft payload thermal management method is one of the key problems to build China Space Station (CSS). Aiming at the outstanding characteristics and difficulties of the payloads rack in the experimental lab module of CS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,022 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2021

Fuel flowrate control system and fuel thermal management are very important for aeroengine and the overall aircraft, and it has been researched for several decades. This survey paper makes a comprehensive and systematic overview on the exiting fuel f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
14 Pages

In order to solve the problems of thermal management efficiency and temperature control accuracy in the passenger compartment of electric vehicles, the phase change thermal storage design concept and the model-free adaptive control method are applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,545 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2020

Integration of modeling and optimization of a thermal management system simultaneously depends on heat transfer performance of the components and the topological characteristics of the system. This paper introduces a heat current method to construct...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
16,179 Views
37 Pages

The performance of lithium-ion batteries is closely related to temperature, and much attention has been paid to their thermal safety. With the increasing application of the lithium-ion battery, higher requirements are put forward for battery thermal...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,204 Views
22 Pages

27 June 2025

In this investigation, a comprehensive validation framework for an integrated electrochemical-thermal model that addresses critical thermal management challenges in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is presented. The two-dimensional numerical model combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,642 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Analysis of an Innovative Electrical Battery Thermal Management System

  • Luca Cattani,
  • Matteo Malavasi,
  • Fabio Bozzoli,
  • Valerio D’Alessandro and
  • Luca Giammichele

30 June 2023

The aim of the present work is to develop and test an innovative cooling system for the thermal management of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). At present, the technology most used for electric propulsion is based on lithium-ion cells. The power...

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32 Citations
7,819 Views
16 Pages

13 August 2020

Stationary battery systems are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Energy storage is a key technology in facilitating renewable energy market penetration and battery energy storage systems have seen considerable investment for this purpose. Large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,556 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2022

The integrated thermal management system of aircraft is essential to maintain a suitable environment for the cabin crew and devices. The system is composed of the air-cycle refrigeration subsystem, the vapor-compression refrigeration subsystem, the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,021 Views
19 Pages

Model-Based Performance Optimization of Thermal Management System of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

  • Jiaming Zhang,
  • Fuwu Yan,
  • Changqing Du,
  • Wenhao Li,
  • Hongzhang Fang and
  • Jun Shen

8 May 2023

As a promising new power source, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has attracted extensive attention. The PEMFC engine produces a large amount of waste heat during operation. The excessive temperature will reduce the efficiency and lifes...

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