Digital Avatar of Battery Systems (DABS)

PIs: Daniel Tartakovsky (Energy Resources Engineering), Hamdi Tchelepi (Energy Resources Engineering), William Chueh (Materials Science and Engineering)

The project "Digital Avatar of Battery Systems (DABS)” represents a concerted multidisciplinary effort to develop a physics-based multiscale battery simulator. It will serve as the computational engine for the optimal design of electrolytes and the microstructure of porous electrodes. Similar simulation tools guide design and optimization in engineering fields as diverse as microelectronics, automotive and aerospace industries, and groundwater hydrology; the battery design is a glaring exception, which our project aims to resolve. The starting point of DABS is a high-resolution characterization of the pore structure of an electrode. That is followed by the development of a robust pore-scale simulator of Li-metal batteries.