The Next-Gen Battery Simulation at Exascale Birds of a Feather session will be held as part of the Supercomputing Conference 2024 in Atlanta, USA.
With the rapid growth of electric vehicles and Net Zero targets, battery simulation is crucial. High-performance computing (HPC) facilitates accurate simulations of battery electrochemistry and thermal behaviour, allowing improved predictions of cell performance, cyclic life, and safety to inform R&D. This Birds of a Feather will address the challenges of developing exascale battery modelling capabilities and foster connections between HPC and battery science communities. The goal is to bring together researchers, software developers, battery manufacturers, and industry professionals to discuss and collaborate on advancing battery simulation tools. The Birds of a Feather session will consist of talks discussing gaps in the state-of-the-art and the application of AI for multiscale battery modelling, followed by an audience discussion and panel session sharing insights, obstacles, and solutions to accelerate the collaborative development of batteries.
The relevance to the HPC audience lies in the computational demands incurred by the expensive simulation of multiple physical phenomena at very distinct scales: e.g. electrode lithiation, particle fracture and swelling at the unit cell scale, and thermal and mechanical stress at the cell and full battery pack scales. Historically, these have prevented the simulation of battery behavior at scale and as a result manufacturers often resort to expensive and time-consuming experimental verification and validation of their designs. High-performance computing is pivotal in tackling these complex simulations, making this session highly pertinent to researchers and professionals involved in HPC, AI, advanced modelling and simulation, and battery development.
By focusing on multiscale modelling, software and data gaps, uncertainty quantification, distributed training of surrogate models, and numerical scheme selection, this session will identify key challenges and explore potential solutions for enhancing battery performance and accelerating the development of high-performing batteries.
Birds of a Feather session topics:
- Enhanced collaboration among attendees, leading to potential partnerships and joint research initiatives.
- A comprehensive understanding of the current state of battery simulation software, including its strengths and limitations. This will be published in a white paper following the BoF.
- Identification of key challenges and bottlenecks in exascale battery modelling.
- Generation of new ideas and approaches to overcome these challenges, particularly through the integration of AI surrogate modelling and efficient numerical schemes.
- A roadmap for future developments in battery simulation, aligning with the needs and capabilities of exascale architectures (to be included in the white paper).
Birds of a Feather session leaders:
- Tim Powell, STFC Hartree Centre, session leader
- Nuno Nobre, STFC Hartree Centre, additional session leader
- Daniel Ward, STFC Hartree Centre, additional session leader
- Karthikeyan Chockalingam, STFC Hartree Centre, additional session leader
- Andrew Colclasure, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, additional session leader
- Srikanth Allu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, additional session leader
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Important dates:
- 15 October 2024 | Conference early bird registration deadline
- 21 November 2024 | Birds of a Feather
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