To improve heat dissipation in the thermal management of batteries for electric vehicles, this study proposes a bionic structure based on shark scales. The design optimizes a phase-change material (PCM) heat sink in conjunction with axial air cooling to regulate battery temperature. Based on performance experiments of the battery, a three-dimensional model was built to investigate and compare the heat dissipation of the battery in natural convection, forced convection, forced convection coupled with PCM, and forced convection coupled with bionics-optimized PCM. The results indicate that the temperature rise of the battery with the forced convection coupled with bionics-optimized PCM is only 33.6% of that with natural convection at a 2 °C discharge, and the average temperature of the battery is 41.8 °C, which keeps the battery within a suitable temperature range. In addition, the bionic structure can reduce the pressure drop at the inlet and outlet by 4% compared with the traditional method.
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