A full announcement of V2 is forthcoming very soon, but for now it’s possible to download the beta version of 2.0 from Github (master branch) or from PyPI using “pip install openpnm==2.0.0-b0”. The conversion to V2 has been a huge effort and we’re very happy with the results, although we’re glad to be finally finished! Enjoy.
Category Archives: News and Announcements
Modeling Diffusion and Reaction in Hierarchical Materials
Congratulations to Amin Sadeghi, PhD candidate with Prof. Gostick, for his recently published work using OpenPNM model diffusion hierarchical, multiscale catalyst particles. This work was published in The Chemical Engineering Journal.
OpenPNM is officially peer-reviewed
The OpenPNM team has prepared a paper outlining the architecture and capabilities of our software package. It is now officially available in the IEEE journal Computers in Science and Engineering. The developers would appreciate if people cited this article if they use OpenPNM in any publication.
OpenPNM featured on CANARIE blog
CANARIE is a Canadian agency that promote, supports, funds, and generally enables digital technology and software development in Canada. OpenPNM was recently featured in their news stream, which can be read here.
Bazylak team at UofT publishes work using OpenPNM
Aimy Bazylak’s group at UofT has published the first official article using OpenPNM. The title is “Investigating Inlet Condition Effects on PEMFC GDL Liquid Water Transport through Pore Network Modeling”, and as the name suggests they look at the different water invasion patterns arising from different boundary conditions for the IP process.
Tom Tranter Presents OpenPNM at the H2FC conference
Tom Tranter of the University of Leeds presented his work using OpenPNM at the 2nd H2FC SUPERGEN Researcher Conference in Birmingham.
OpenPNM in Cancun
Prof. Jeff Gostick gave a talk to full room during the plenary session of the Fuel Cell symposium at the Fall meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Cancun this past October. The talk was focused on the use of pore network models to simulate complete fuel cell operation, include both anode and cathode GDLs, catalyst layers and ionomer separator. The talk illustrated the important impact of the discrete nature of water clusters in the fuel cell electrode, which leads to localized reactant starvation, hindered proton production, and an overall increase in ohmic losses. The work was entirely performed in OpenPNM.