2025,
46(11):
1403-1415.
doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.450276
Abstract:
The heat dissipation degree of battery packs is a key factor affecting their stability, energy efficiency, and endurance, and is also one of the bottlenecks in the performances of new energy vehicle batteries. Aimed at the excessive maximum battery pack temperature and the consequent structure failure, and in view of the transient effects, a method representing the specific zonal maximum temperature of the structure, called the area temperature control function, was proposed. Meanwhile, a topology optimization model was established with the zonal maximum temperature as the optimization objective to minimize the zonal maximum temperature of the specific zone of the structure during working hours. Based on the adjoint variable method, the sensitivity analytical expression of the objective function based on design variables was derived. The optimization example results show that, the proposed method can effectively improve the heat dissipation efficiency, reduce the specific zonal maximum temperature and mitigate the temperature inhomogeneity, and has a broad application prospect in the field of new energy vehicles.