Liquid Cooling Flow Field Design and Thermal Analysis of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells for Space Applications

Table 6

Comparison of cooling channel designs according to each other.

Designs	Pressure drop	Void formation	Flow rate homogeneity	Vortex formation	Nonflow channel(s)
Design 1	Low	Medium	High	Medium	None
Design 2	Low	Low	Very high	Low	None
Design 3	Low	Very low	High	Very low	None
Design 4	High	High	Very low	High	None
Design 5	High	Medium	Low	Medium	None