Battery knowledge · Transport and modelling

Single-particle model

A simplified physics model that represents each electrode as one spherical particle and neglects electrolyte gradients. It runs fast enough for a BMS and is accurate at low to moderate currents.

Abbreviation
SPM

Example

Transport and modelling: an example situation

The same concentration difference across 10 μm gives ten times the gradient across 100 μm; at equal D, first-law flux magnitude is ten times greater.

Read Single-particle model alongside Battery management system in this context. The electronics and software that keep a battery inside its safe window: measuring every cell voltage and many temperatures, estimating SOC and SOH, balancing cells, computing current limits, controlling the contactors and reporting over the vehicle network.

Use in Lemonergy

Specify phase, direction and boundaries.

This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.

References & further reading

Further reading on this topic

These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.

  1. Modeling of Galvanostatic Charge and Discharge of the Lithium/Polymer/Insertion Cell

    Marc Doyle, Thomas F. Fuller, John Newman · Journal of The Electrochemical Society · 1993

    Topic background · Porous-electrode transport and insertion-cell modeling; foundational work rather than a specification for a particular commercial cell.

  2. Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 3rd edition, 2nd printing

    IUPAC · 2011

    Topic background · Physical-chemistry notation, thermodynamics, electrochemistry and transport quantities.