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The currently commercially employed cooling techniques are not able to achieve the effective thermal management of batteries with increasing energy density. Direct liquid cooling offers enhanced thermal management of battery packs at high discharging rates compared to all other cooling techniques. However, the flow distribution of coolant around the battery module needs to be maintained to achieve the superior performance of direct liquid cooling. The objective of the present work is to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of the lithium-ion battery pack with dielectric fluid immersion cooling for different fin structures. The base structure without fins, circular, rectangular and triangular fin structures are compared for heat transfer characteristics of maximum temperature, temperature difference, average temperature, Nusselt number, pressure drop and performance evaluation criteria (PEC). Furthermore, the heat transfer characteristics are evaluated for various fin dimensions of the best fin structure. The heat transfer characteristics of the battery pack with dielectric fluid immersion cooling according to considered fin structures and dimensions are simulated using ANSYS Fluent commercial code. The results reveal that the symmetrical temperature distribution and temperature uniformity of the battery pack are achieved in the case of all fin structures. The maximum temperature of the battery pack is lower by 2.41%, 2.57% and 4.45% for circular, rectangular, and triangular fin structures, respectively, compared to the base structure. The triangular fin structure shows higher values of Nusselt number and pressure drop with a maximum value of PEC compared to other fin structures. The triangular fin structure is the best fin structure with optimum heat transfer characteristics of the battery pack with dielectric fluid immersion cooling. The heat transfer characteristics of a battery pack with dielectric fluid immersion cooling are further improved for triangular fin structures with a base length -to -height ratio (A\/B) of 4.304. The research outputs from the present work could be referred to as a database to commercialize the dielectric fluid immersion cooling for the efficient battery thermal management system at fast and higher charging\/discharging rates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym15010092","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,29]],"date-time":"2022-12-29T02:59:01Z","timestamp":1672282741000},"page":"92","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Dielectric Fluid Immersion Cooling with Fin Structures for Lithium-Ion Batteries"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jeong-Woo","family":"Han","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University, 37 Nakdong-Daero 550, Saha-gu, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea"}]},{"given":"Kunal Sandip","family":"Garud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University, 37 Nakdong-Daero 550, Saha-gu, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea"}]},{"given":"Eun-Hyeok","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University, 37 Nakdong-Daero 550, Saha-gu, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8857-4444","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moo-Yeon","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University, 37 Nakdong-Daero 550, Saha-gu, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"41397","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijhydene.2022.04.010","article-title":"Sustainable and energy efficient hydrogen production via glycerol reforming techniques: A review","volume":"47","author":"Qureshi","year":"2022","journal-title":"Int. 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