by Markus Schmuck
The author's research on energy storage
systems generally was confronted with five characteristics, i.e.,
complex, interacting, transporting, reacting, and heterogeneous systems.
Hence, we refer to these kind of systems as Complex Heterogeneous
Systems (CHeSs).
The work considers
interacting systems that exchange energy, mass, information, etc. in
various ways. The elementary building blocks of CHeSs are based on
fundamental thermodynamic, chemical, material, physical, and
mathematical principles such as variational and graph-theoretic
concepts. It investigates ways of defining complexity, computing
percolation thresholds, making smart decisions also by learning from
data/past experiences (e.g., providing a systematic approach towards
battery management systems), and identifying battery life (e.g., by
blow-up analysis of highly nonlinear concentrated solutions).
Ultimately,
the elaborated tools shall allow the reader to obtain a general
understanding for simulating (also on quantum computers), controlling,
and developing CHeSs as well as to pave the way for a general theory on
CHeSs generalizing the view on complexity, measurement, estimation, and
control.
