Safety has become an important issue in battery design. Under abuse conditions, thermal runaway may occur in a battery. Increased temperature could trigger thermal runaway reactions. Excessive of heat released as a result of such conditions could damage a battery cell, or even cause fire or explosion. Thermal runaway reactions are very complicated and material-specific. For modeling thermal runaway reactions and simulating a battery thermal behavior under thermal abuses, Ansys Fluent offers the following semi-empirical models:

For details on how to set up and use these model, see Specifying Advanced Options.