The increasing demands for the penetration of renewable energy into the grid urgently call
for low-cost and large-scale energy storage technologies. With an intrinsic dendrite-free …

Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) have a potential to emerge as a cost-effective
solution for grid-scale energy storage to overcome the intermittency of renewable energy …

Liquid metal batteries have been introduced as promising option to address the needs for
new energy storage technologies. Currently, batteries based on sodium and zinc are under …

Accurately simulating the flow and heat transfer in a compact assembly is a critical concern
in the core design of the lead-cooled fast reactor. The key to numerical heat transfer lies in …

Liquid metal batteries (LMB) are one of the most promising solutions for grid-scale energy
storage due to their characteristics of long life and low cost. On account of the all-liquid …

Solutal buoyancy has a large impact on the flow of the alloy phase composing the positive
electrode in liquid metal batteries. During discharge solutal buoyancy creates a stabilizing …

Lithium-bismuth bimetallic cells are amongst the best explored liquid metal batteries. A
simple and fast quasi-one-dimensional cell voltage model for such devices is presented …

Mass and charge transport in liquid metal batteries are closely intertwined because of the
fully liquid interior of the cells. We found that charging and discharging cycles may show …

Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) are a promising concept for cheap electrical energy
storage at grid level. These are built as a stable density stratification of three liquid layers …

We use the multiphase magnetohydrodynamic code SFEMaNS to study the generation of
electrovortex flows in liquid metal batteries. We first reproduce some well known results in a …