sample of publications

• articles 

  • Examining the mass transport resistance of porous transport layers at the rib/channel scale in polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers: Modeling and design.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER.  244:1-18. 2025
  • The critical role of the anode porous transport layer/catalyst layer interface of polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers: A parametric analysis.  Chemical Engineering Journal.  509:160722-1-160722-19. 2025
  • Modeling the performance of electrosprayed catalyst layers in the cathode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.  Fuel.  380:1-23. 2025
  • Modeling the trade-off between performance and pressure drop of bimodal pore size electrodes in vanadium redox flow batteries: Parallel vs. Series arrangement.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER.  232:1-26. 2024
  • Modeling of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell with a hybrid continuum/discrete formulation at the rib/channel scale: Effect of relative humidity and temperature on performance and two-phase transport.  APPLIED ENERGY.  367:1-21. 2024
  • Effect of Microporous Layer Cracks on Catalyst Durability of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells for Heavy-Duty Applications.  ACS Applied Energy Materials.  7:5736-5744. 2024
  • Examining Invasion-Percolation Across the Cathode Layered Assembly in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Oxygen Resistance, Wettability and Cracks.  ChemElectroChem.  11:1-19. 2024
  • A general-purpose tool for modeling multifunctional thin porous media (POREnet): From pore network to effective property tensors.  Heliyon.  10:1-33. 2024
  • A numerical analysis of the effect of layer-scale and microscopic parameters of membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange fuel cells under two-phase conditions.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  593:1-19. 2024
  • Investigating the Coupled Influence of Flow Fields and Porous Electrodes on Redox Flow Battery Performance.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  586:1-15. 2023
  • A Numerical Assessment of Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Local Oxygen and Proton Transport Resistances in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells.  Materials.  16. 2023
  • Proton exchange membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells: An analysis of perfluorosulfonic acid and aromatic hydrocarbon ionomers.  Sustainable Materials and Technologies.  38:1-29. 2023
  • Engineering Lung-Inspired Flow Field Geometries for Electrochemical Flow Cells with Stereolithography 3D Printing.  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.  11:12243-12255. 2023
  • On the optimal cathode catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells: bimodal pore size distributions with functionalized microstructures.  Frontiers in Energy Research.  10:01-27. 2022
  • Design and economic analysis of a hydrokinetic turbine for household applications.  Renewable Energy.  199:587-598. 2022
  • Effect of thickness and outlet area fraction of macroporous gas diffusion layers on oxygen transport resistance in water injection simulations.  TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA.  145:413-440. 2022
  • Investigating the effects of operation variables on all-vanadium redox flow batteries through an advanced unit-cell model.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  169:100522-1-100522-15. 2022
  • Modeling the effect of low Pt loading cathode catalyst layer in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Part II: Parametric analysis.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  169:1-16. 2022
  • Characterization and Modeling of Free Volume and Ionic Conduction in Multiblock Copolymer Proton Exchange Membranes.  Polymers.  14:1688-1708. 2022
  • 1D two-phase, non-isothermal modeling of a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer: An optimization perspective.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  521:1-15. 2022
  • Modeling the interplay between water capillary transport and species diffusion in gas diffusion layers of proton exchange fuel cells using a hybrid computational fluid dynamics formulation.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  520:1-14. 2022
  • Modeling the Effect of Low Pt loading Cathode Catalyst Layer in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Part I: Model Formulation and Validation.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  168:1-16. 2021
  • Modeling gas diffusion layers in polymer electrolyte fuel cells using a continuum-based pore-network formulation.  ECS Transactions (discontinued).  97:1-12. 2021
  • Effects of the diffusive mixing and self-discharge reactions in microfluidic membraneless vanadium redox flow batteries.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER.  170:121022-1-121022-15. 2021
  • On the Conductivity of Proton-Exchange Membranes Based onMultiblock Copolymers of Sulfonated Polysulfoneand Polyphenylsulfone: An Experimental and Modeling Study.  Polymers.  13:1-24. 2021
  • Modeling diffusion and convection in thin porous transport layers using a composite continuum-network model: Application to gas diffusion layers in polymer electrolyte fuel cells.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER.  2020
  • Modeling the Effect of Channel Tapering on the Pressure Drop and Flow Distribution Characteristics of Interdigitated Flow Fields in Redox Flow Batteries.  Processes.  8:775. 2020
  • Probing the Structure-Performance Relationship of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes Using Pore-Networks Extracted from Three-Phase Tomograms.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  167:1-13. 2020
  • X-ray micro-computed tomography of polymer electrolyte fuel cells: what is the representative elementary area?.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  167. 2020
  • Bridging scales to model reactive diffusive transport in porous media.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  167:1-10. 2020
  • DynamFluid: development and validation of a new GUI-based CFD tool for the analysis of incompressible non-isothermal flows.  Processes.  7:1-27. 2019
  • A mathematical model for direct ethanol fuel cells based on detailed ethanol electro-oxidation kinetics.  APPLIED ENERGY.  251:113264-1-113264-23. 2019
  • The Impact of Reaction on the Effective Properties of Multiscale Catalytic Porous Media: A Case of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells.  TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA.  128:363-384. 2019
  • Through-the-Membrane Transient Phenomena in PEM Fuel Cells: A Modeling Study.  JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.  166:F3154-F3179. 2019
  • Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study.  ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA.  295:861-874. 2019
  • A 1D+1D Model of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells Based on an Optimized Kinetic Mechanism for Ethanol Electro-Oxidation Involving Free and Adsorbed Intermediate Species.  ECS Transactions (discontinued).  80:95-104. 2017
  • On the Limitations of Volume-Averaged Descriptions of Gas Diffusion Layers in the Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells.  ECS Transactions (discontinued).  80:133-143. 2017
  • A genetically optimized kinetic model for ethanol electro-oxidation on Pt-based binary catalysts used in direct ethanol fuel cells.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  363:341-355. 2017
  • Hydration and dehydration cycles in polymer electrolyte fuel cells operated with wet anode and dry cathode feed: A neutron imaging and modeling study.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  359:634-655. 2017
  • On the effect of operating conditions in liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cells: A multiphysics modeling approach.  Energy.  113:1265-1287. 2016
  • Mathematical modeling of direct ethanol fuel cells using a multi-step chemical kinetic mechanism.  ECS Transactions (discontinued).  72:1-104. 2016
  • Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of local saturation and application to macroscopic continuum models.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  296:440-453. 2015
  • Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER.  86:319-333. 2015
  • On the effects of assembly compression on the performance of liquid-feed DMFCs under methanol-limiting conditions: A 2D numerical study.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  285:543-558. 2015
  • Modeling of the anode of a liquid-feed DMFC: Inhomogeneous compression effects and two-phase transport phenomena.  JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES.  246:239-252. 2014
  • Nonlinear orthotropic model of the inhomogeneous assembly compression of PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY.  36:18856-18870. 2011

• book chapters 

  • Effective transport properties. In: Electrochemical cell calculations with OpenFOAM.  SPRINGER NATURE LIMITED. 151-168. 2022
  • Porous Electrode Components in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers. In: Encyclopedia of Energy Storage. Vol. 2.  ELSEVIER. 290-298. 2022
  • General aspects in the modeling of fuel cells: from conventional fuel cells to nano fuel cells. In: Nanotechnology in fuel cells.  ELSEVIER B.V.. 77-121. 2022
  • Fundamentals of electrochemistry with application to direct alcohol fuel cell modeling. In: Proton exchange membrane fuel cell.  INTECH. 121-154. 2018

• conference contributions 

  • Modeling Single and Two-Phase Transport in Thin Porous Layers Using a Composite Continuum-Pore Network Formulation 2020
  • Multiphysics Modeling of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries 2020
  • Pore-network modeling of gas diffusion layers in polymer electrolyte fuel cells using a continuum-based formulation 2020
  • Effect of inhomogeneous compression on pressure drop and species transport in electrodes of redox flow batteries 2019
  • Elucidating the effects of tapered flow channels on the perfor-mance of vanadium redox flow batteries 2019
  • Elucidating the effects of tapered flow channels on the performance of vanadium redox flow batteries 2019
  • The Effect of Channel Tapering on the Performance of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries 2019
  • Ánalisis de heterogeneidades en pilas de combustible PEM mediante tomografía computarizada de rayos X 2019
  • Exploring the limits of macro-homogeneous models of carbon-fiber papers.  196-197. 2018
  • Pore-scale modeling of thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers in polymer electrolyte fuel cells using 3D X-ray computed tomography 2018
  • Current oscillations in PEFCs operated with saturated anode and dry cathode streams: electrochemistry and water distribution 2016
  • Mathematical modeling of direct ethanol fuel cells using a multi-step chemical kinetic mechanism 2016
  • Modeling current oscillations in asymmetrically humidified PEFCs: the contest between saturated anode and dry cathode streams 2016
  • Water distribution oscillations in a PEMFC under low cathode humidification: neutron imaging and transient two-phase modeling 2016
  • On the mass-transfer properties of partially-saturated carbon-paper gas diffusion layers: global vs. local effective diffusivity 2015
  • On the influence of GDL compression on the performance of liquid-feed DMFCs under low cathode flooding conditions.  67. 2014
  • Inhomogeneous assembly compression effects on two-phase transport phenomena in the anode of a DMFC 2013
  • Lattice Boltzmann simulations of anisotropic permeabilities in partially-saturated PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers 2013
  • Mathematical modelling of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells including free and adsorbed intermediate species 2013
  • Modelado del ánodo de una pila DMFC: flujo multifácico y efectos de la compresión no homogénea de ensamblaje 2012
  • Modelización matemática del ánodo de una pila DEFC incluyendo especies intermedias libres y absorbidas 2012
  • Multiphysics Model of the Anode of a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell.  94-108. 2011
  • Multiphysics modeling of the anode of liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cells.  231-362. 2011

• theses 

  • Multiphysics modeling of liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cells and characterization of diffusive transport properties of gas diffusion layers