Publications

Pablo’ s work has been published in well-established journals of various scientific fields, including International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Transport in Porous Media, Journal of Power Sources, Journal of the Electrochemical Society and Electrochimica Acta, among others. The work has been carried out in collaboration with recognized researchers from different institutions around the world, such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Paul Scherrer Institute and German Aerospace Center.

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Paper #77

Materials

P. A. García-Salaberri, J. Ureña, L. Duque, C. Jarava, A.M. Chaparro, The Enabling Role of Additive Manufacturing for the Design of Portable Air-Breathing Electrochemical Devices: The Case of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with an Open Columnar Cathode Plate, Materials.

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Paper #76

ChemicalEngineering

P. A. García-Salaberri, M. van Der Heijden, A. Forner-Cuenca, I.V. Zenyuk, J.T. Gostick, Transport and Design of Graded Pore-Size Gas Diffusion Layers for Next-Generation Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, Chemical Engineering Journal.

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Paper #75

EnergyMaterials

P. A. García-Salaberri, V. Shastry Devalla, J. Mouallem, J. Liu, M. Secanell, I.V. Zenyuk, Emerging Frontiers in Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis: From Interfacial Chemistry to Practical Operation, Applied Energy Materials.

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Paper #74

EnergyMaterials

P. A. García-Salaberri, M. van Der Heijden, Architected Porous Media for Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers and Beyond: A Paradigm for Transport Engineering, submitted.

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Paper #73

JPS

M..J. Kermani, A. Alipour, J. Scholta, H. Genceli, L. Wei, F.M. Jiang, N. Zatta, M. Guarnieri, P. A. García-Salaberri, Through-plane porosity-graded, component-less foam flow fields for high volumetric power density in PEM fuel cells, submitted.

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Paper #72

Applied Energy

P.A. García-Salaberri, O. Sanumi, A.M. Ares de Parga-Regalado, D.F. Rozo, P. Blanco-Carmona, M. van der Heijden, M. McKague, M. Mehrnia, M. Batool, M. Barzegari, C. Bordons, A. Iranzo, P. Ryzhakov, J.T. Gostick, A. Forner-Cuenca, A. Torralba, J. Jankovic, M. Secanell, A Comprehensive Review of Machine Learning in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: From Materials to Intelligent Systems, Applied Energy, submitted.

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Paper #71

In Preparation

F. Navas, A. Chocarro-Calvo, P. Iglesias-Hernández, A. Galindo-Caballero, P.A. García-Salaberri, H. Shahzad, V. Morales, J.M. García-Martínez, M. Garate-Etxeberría, R. Sanz, A. De la Vieja, C. García-Jiménez, R.A. García-Muñoz, Wall-Integrated Pt(IV) Mesoporous Organosilica Nanomedicines: Triple-Synergy Mechanisms to Drive Superior Efficacy in Colon Cancer.

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Paper #70

JPS

A. Sánchez-Ramos, P. A. García-Salaberri, Parametric Study of Microstructure Impact on Water Transport in Proton Exchange Fuel Cells via Mathematical Modelling, Journal of Power Sources 693 (2026) 241176.

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Paper #69

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P.A. García-Salaberri, C. Casado, J. Marugán, Effect of Cathode and Membrane Transport Properties on the Performance of Zero-Gap Alkaline Carbon Dioxide Electrolyzers: A 1D Modeling Study, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 14 (2026) 123908.

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Paper #68

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, Pore-Scale Analysis of Effective Electrical Conductivity of Unsupported Catalyst Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolyzers, Journal of Power Sources 690 (2026) 240791.

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Paper #67

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P.A. García-Salaberri, C. Casado, J. Marugán, Two-phase, Non-Isothermal Modeling of a Zero-Gap Alkaline Carbon Dioxide Electrolyzer: Effect of Operating Conditions and Cathode Flooding, Electrochimica Acta 573 (2026) 149174.

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Paper #66

PoF

H. Shahzad, T. Aziz, H.M.S. Bahaidarah, Y. Chen, M. Haseeb, P.A. García-Salaberri, Thermal transport and lift-drag dynamics in magneto-micropolar flow past over a bluff body within a lid-driven channel under localized magnetic field influence, Physics of Fluids 38 (2026) 062009.

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Paper #65

P.A. García-Salaberri, F. Ghojavand, E.S. Sanz-Pérez, R. Sanz, Dynamics of solid amine sorbent packed bed reactors for carbon dioxide capture: Effect of particle size and pressure drop, Chemical Engineering Journal 536 (2026) 175750.

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Paper #64

Z. Wang, H. Zhu, H. Zhang, P.A. García-Salaberri, R. Wu, Y. Tao, The Heat Transfer mechanism of Phase change materials strengthened by Metal Foam with Rotating Parabolic Structure: Numerical research, International Journal of Thermal Sciences 225 (2026) 110781.

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Paper #63

J. García-Domínguez, J. Daniel Marcos, A.M. Blanco-Marigorta, P.A. García-Salaberri, Design and optimisation of a novel solar-driven ORC-based polygeneration system with hybrid PVT, cascade refrigeration, and PEM electrolysis, Energy Conversion and Management 349 (2026) 120838.

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Paper #62

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, K. Ferner, Unraveling the Effect of Anode Catalyst Layer Thickness on the Performance of Proton-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers by Numerical Modeling, Journal of Power Sources 661 (2026) 238578.

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Paper #61

frontiers

P.A. García-Salaberri, A.M. Chaparro, P.K. Das, M. Andersson, Multiphysics, multiphase and multiscale modeling and characterization of porous media in electrochemical energy systems, Frontiers in Energy Research 13 (2025) 1544773.

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Paper #60

JPS

L. Duque, E. Diaz-Alvarez, M. Sarma, T. Lappan, N. Weber, J. Lee, P. Boillat, P.A. García-Salaberri, M.A. Folgado, A.M. Chaparro, Neutron radiography analysis of water management in a passive PEMFC with superhydrophobic catalyst layers, Journal of Power Sources 659 (2025) 238460.

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Paper #59

W. Hussain, H. Shahzad, P.A. García-Salaberri, H. Ashraf, N. Ali Shah, Comprehensive review on Thermoelectric materials Principles, Synthesis, Nanostructuring and Advance Applications, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 169 (2025) 109672.

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Paper #58

Energy Materials

P.A. García-Salaberri, L. van Eijk, W. Bangay, K.J. Ferner, M.H. Ha, M. Moore, I. Perea, A. Kusoglu, M. Secanell, P.K. Das, N. Firas, S. Pylypenko, M. Novy, M. Yandrasits, S.C. Saha, A. Bayat, S. Litster, I.V. Zenyuk, Materials Engineering for High Performance and Durability Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers, Applied Energy Materials 8 (2025) 13050–13121.

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Paper #57

P.A. García-Salaberri, H.M. Chang, J.T. Lang, N. Firas, H. Shazhad, Y. Morimoto, I.V. Zenyuk, 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 (2025) 160722.

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Paper #56

P.A. García-Salaberri, J.T. Lang, H.M. Chang, N. Firas, H. Shazhad, I.V. Zenyuk, 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 (2025) 126889.

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Paper #55

P.A. García-Salaberri, A. Perego, R. Wu, I.V. Zenyuk, Boosting the Performance of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with Porous Flow Fields: Pros and Cons, Energy 318 (2025) 134728.

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Paper #54

P.A. García-Salaberri, L. Duque, M.A. Folgado, E. Diaz-Alvarez, A.M. Chaparro, Modeling the performance of electrosprayed catalyst layers in the cathode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Fuel 380 (2025) 133175.

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Paper #53

P.A. García-Salaberri, S. Merino, G. de Diego, L. Duque, H. Shahzad, E. Diaz-Alvarez, M.A. Folgado, A.M. Chaparro, Bimodal Behavior of Catalyst Layers Prepared By Electrospray: High Water Uptake and Superhydrophobicity, ECS Transactions 114 (2024) 309.

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Paper #52

P.A. García-Salaberri, H. Shahzad, L. Duque, M.A. Folgado, E. Díaz-Álvarez, A.M. Chaparro, Modeling the Effect of Cell Orientation on the Performance of an Air-Breathing Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell with a Columnar Cathode Plate, ECS Transactions 114 (2024) 451.

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Paper #51

P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 (2024) 125947.

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Paper #50

Nanostructured

P.A. García-Salaberri, Battery Manufacturing- Lab to Industry-Challenges, in Nanostructured Materials Engineering and Characterization for Battery Applications, Elsevier, 2024.

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Paper #49

Energy Materials

C. Chen, K. Khedekar, A. Zaffora, M. Santamaria, M. Coats, S. Pylypenko, P.A. García-Salaberri, J. Braaten, P. Atanassov, N. Tamura, C. Johnston, L. Cheng, I.V. Zenyuk, Effect of Microporous Layer Cracks on Catalyst Durability of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells for Heavy-Duty Applications, ACS Applied Energy Materials 7 (2024) 5736–5744.

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Paper #48

Chem Electro Chem

P.A. García-Salaberri, Examining Invasion-Percolation Across the Membrane Electrode Assembly in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Oxygen Resistance, Wettability and Cracks, ChemElectroChem (2024) e202400068.

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Paper #47

Applied Energy

P.A. García-Salaberri, A. Sánchez-Ramos, 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 (2024) 123332.

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Paper #46

frontiers

P.A. García-Salaberri, P.K. Das, A.M. Chaparro, Local Oxygen Transport Resistance in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Origin, Dependencies and Mitigation, Frontiers in Energy Research 12 (2024) 1–18.

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Paper #45

Helyon

P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, A General-Purpose Tool for Modeling Multifunctional Thin Porous Media (POREnet): From Pore Network To Effective Property Tensors, Heliyon 10 (2024) e26253.

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Paper #44

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, A. Sánchez-Ramos, 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, J. Power Sources 593 (2024) 233950.

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Paper #43

Materials

P.A. García-Salaberri, A numerical assessment of mitigation strategies to reduce local oxygen and proton transport resistances in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Materials 16 (2023) 6935.

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Paper #42

Sustainable Materials and Technologies

P.A. García-Salaberri, Proton Exchange Membranes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: An Analysis of Perfluorosulfonic Acid and Aromatic Hydrocarbon Ionomers, Sustainable Materials and Technologies 38 (2023) e00727.

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Paper #41

JPS

V. Muñoz-Perales, P.A. García-Salaberri, A. Mularczyk, S.E. Ibáñez, M. Vera, A. Forner-Cuenca, Investigating the Coupled Influence of Flow Fields and Porous Electrodes on Redox Flow Battery Performance, Journal of Power Sources 586 (2023) 233420.

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Paper #40

ACS

V. Muñoz-Perales, M. van der Heijden, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, A. Forner-Cuenca, Engineering Lung-inspired Flow Field Geometries for Redox Flow Batteries with Stereolithography 3D Printing, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11 (2023) 12243–12255.

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Paper #39

frontiers

P.A. García-Salaberri, A. Sánchez-Ramos, P.K. Das, On the Optimal Cathode Catalyst Layer for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Bimodal Pore Size Distributions with Functionalized Microstructures, Frontiers in Energy Research 10 (2022) 1–27.

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Paper #38

Fuel Cell Transportation

P.A. García-Salaberri, P.K. Das, Effective Transport Properties for Fuel Cells: Modeling and Experimental Characterization, in Fuel Cells for Transportation, Elsevier, 2022.

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Paper #37

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V. Muñoz-Perales, S. Berling, E. García-Quismondo, P.A. García-Salaberri, J. Palma, M. Vera, S.E. Ibáñez-León, Investigating the Effects of Operation Variables on All-VanadiumRedox Flow Batteries Through an Advanced Unit-Cell Model, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 169 (2022) 100522.

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Paper #36

Renewable energy

C.M. Puertas-Frías, C.S. Wilson, P.A. García-Salaberri, Design and economic analysis of a hydrokinetic turbine for household applications, Renewable Energy 199 (2022) 587–598.

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Paper #35

Transport in Porous media

P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 (2022) 413–440.

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Paper #34

M.M. Gomaa, A. Sánchez-Ramos, N. Ureña, M.T. Pérez-Prior, B. Levenfeld, P.A. García-Salaberri, M.R.M. Elsharkawy, Characterization and Modeling of Free Volume and Ionic Conduction in Multiblock Copolymer Proton Exchange Membranes, Polymers 14 (2022) 1688.

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Paper #33

Jes

A. Sánchez-Ramos, J.T. Gostick, P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 (2022) 074503

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Paper #32

Elsevier

P.A. García-Salaberri, Chapter 4 - General aspects in the modeling of fuel cells: from conventional fuel cells to nano fuel cells. In: Huaihe Song, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Ghulam Yasin (eds) Nanotechnology in Fuel Cells, pp. 77–121, Elsevier, 2022, ISBN: 9780323857277.

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Paper #31

P.A. García-Salaberri, Effective Transport Properties. In: Beale, S., Lehnert, W. (eds) Electrochemical Cell Calculations with OpenFOAM. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 42. Springer, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-92177-4.

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Paper #30

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, 1D two-phase, non-isothermal modeling of a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer: An optimization perspective, Journal of Power Sources 521 (2022) 230915.

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Paper #29

JPS

D. Zapardiel, P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 (2022) 230735.

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Paper #28

M. Secanell, J.T. Gostick, P.A. García-Salaberri, Porous Electrode Components in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers, Encyclopedia of Energy Storage 2 (2022) 290–298.

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Paper #27

Jes

A. Sánchez-Ramos, J.T. Gostick, P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 (2021) 124514.

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Paper #26

S.E. Ibáñez-León, A. Quintero, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera. Effects of the diffusive mixing and self-discharge reactions in Microfluidic Membraneless Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 170 (2021) 121022.

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Paper #25

N. Ureña, M.T. Pérez-Prior, B. Levenfeld, P.A. García-Salaberri, On the Conductivity of Proton-Exchange Membranes Based on Multiblock Copolymers of Sulfonated Polysulfone and Polyphenylsulfone: An Experimental and Modeling Study, Polymers 13 (2021) 363.

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Paper #24

P.A. García-Salaberri, 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 167 (2021) 120824.

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Paper #23

P.A. García-Salaberri, T.C. Gokoglan, S.E. Ibáñez, E. Agar, M. Vera, Modeling the Effect of Channel Tapering on the Pressure Drop and Flow Distribution Characteristics of Interdigitated Flow Fields in Redox Flow Batteries, Processes 8 (2020) 775.

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Paper #22

P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, J.T. Gostick, A.Z. Weber, Modeling Gas Diffusion Layers in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Using a Continuum-Based Pore-Network Formulation, ECS Transactions 97 615 (2020).

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Paper #21

Jes

Z.A. Khan, P.A. García-Salaberri, T. Heenan, R. Jervis, P. Shearing, D. Brett, A. Elkamel, J.T. Gostick, Probing the structure-performance relationship of lithium-ion battery cathodes using pore-networks extracted from three-phase tomograms, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167 (2020) 040528.

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Paper #20

Jes

J. Hack, P.A. García-Salaberri, M.D.R. Kok, R. Jervis, P.R. Shearing, B. Brandon, D.J.L. Brett, X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: What is the Representative Elementary Area?, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167 (2020) 013545.

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Paper #19

Jes

J. Liu, P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, Bridging Scales to Model Reactive Diffusive Transport in Porous Media, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167 (2020) 013524.

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Paper #18

H. Redal, J. Carpio, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, DynamFluid: Development and Validation of a New GUI-based CFD Tool for the Analysis of Incompressible Non-Isothermal Flows, Processes 7 (2019) 1–27.

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Paper #17

Applied Energy

J. Sánchez-Monreal, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, A mathematical model for direct ethanol fuel cells based on detailed ethanol electro-oxidation kinetics, Applied Energy 251 (2019) 113264.

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Paper #16

Jes

A. Goshtasbi, P.A. García-Salaberri, J. Chen, K. Talukdar, D. García-Sánchez, T. Ersal, Through-the-Membrane Transient Phenomena in PEM Fuel Cells: A Modeling Study, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166 (2019) F3154–F3179.

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Paper #15

Transport in Porous media

J. Liu, P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, 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 (2019) 363–384.

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Paper #14

P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A.Z. Weber, J.T. Gostick, Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study, Electrochimica Acta 295 (2019) 861–874.

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Paper #13

P.A. García-Salaberri, I.V. Zenyuk, A.D. Shum, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A.Z. Weber, J.T. Gostick, Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 127 (2018) 687–703.

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Paper #12

J. Sánchez-Monreal, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, Fundamentals of Electrochemistry with Application to Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell Modeling, in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, InTech, Rijeka, 2017, ISBN: 978-953-51-5774-8.

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Paper #11

P.A. García-Salaberri, J.T. Gostick, I.V. Zenyuk, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A.Z. Weber, On the Limitations of Volume-Averaged Descriptions of Gas Diffusion Layers in the Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, ECS Transactions 80 (2017) 133–143.

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Paper #10

J. Sánchez-Monreal, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, 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 80 (2017) 95–104.

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Paper #9

JPS

J. Sánchez-Monreal, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, 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 (2017) 341–355.

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Paper #8

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, D. García-Sánchez, P. Boillat, M. Vera, K.A. Friedrich, 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 (2017) 634–655.

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Paper #7

J. Sánchez-Monreal, P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, Mathematical Modeling of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells Using a Multi-Step Chemical Kinetic Mechanism, ECS Transactions 72 (2016) 1–16.

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Paper #6

P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, On the effect of operating conditions in liquid-feed DMFCs: A multiphysics modeling approach, Energy 113 (2016) 1265–1287.

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Paper #5

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, J.T. Gostick, G. Hwang, A.Z. Weber, M. Vera, 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 (2015) 440–453.

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Paper #4

P.A. García-Salaberri, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A.Z. Weber, J.T. Gostick, Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 86 (2015) 319–333.

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Paper #3

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, 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 (2015) 543–558.

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Paper #2

JPS

P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, I. Iglesias, Modeling of the anode of a liquid-feed DMFC: inhomogeneous compression effects and two-phase transport phenomena, Journal of Power Sources 246 (2014) 239–252.

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Paper #1

P.A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, R. Zaera, Nonlinear orthotropic model of the inhomogeneous assembly compression of PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 36 (2011) 11856–11870.