11410E500100 Seminar

TOPIC
▸　High-Throughput Style Screening for Desired Material Microstructures – Applications in Battery Electrode Architecture 

❝　This work presents a high-throughput microstructure simulation framework for use in the discipline of computational materials science to screen out desirable structures. As motivation, we present a brief study of battery microstructural architecture optimization. Realistic 3D microstructures are reconstructed from voxel data. The voxel data can be easily modified, enabling rapid manipulation and making high-throughput investigation possible. The microstructure-level simulations are made computationally feasible by using the Smoothed Boundary Method to embed complicated microstructures in the computational domain. Additionally, our efforts toward an open-source microscale battery simulation software, titled BESFEM, are previewed.　❞

SPEAKER
▸　Prof. Hui-Chia Yu
▸　Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

Hui-Chia Yu is an alumnus of National Tsing Hua University (PME Class of ’97). He then earned a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, USA, in 2009. In 2017, he joined the faculty at Michigan State University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Dr. Yu’s expertise lies in simulating moving boundary phenomena in materials science—such as phase transformations, crack propagation, and two-phase flow—using phase-field and level-set methods. His research also focuses on algorithm development for large-scale microstructure simulations, applying these methods to study a wide range of materials processes, including electrochemical reactions in porous electrodes, solid and fluid mechanics, sintering, and diamond growth.

TIME
▸　2025/11/25 (TUE) 13:20 ~ 15:10

VENUE
▸　Classroom 215, Engineergin Building 1