Background:
Ashley is a lecturer in vehicle electrification with expertise in batteries, hydrogen fuel cells and electric vehicles. He received an MEng degree in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University in 2011, followed by a PhD in the thermal management of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2015. He then worked as a research associate on a joint project between the United Kingdom and South Korea for advanced fuel cell technology, before becoming a lecturer in vehicle electrification in 2018.
Ashley is open to enquiries from potential PhD students, industry and collaborators.
Qualifications:
- MEng (hons) in Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, 2011
- PhD, Loughborough University, 2015
Key awards:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2019
Outline of main research interests:
Ashley’s research focuses on the design, development, and diagnostics of powertrain systems for electrified vehicles. This includes battery cell/pack level modelling, in-situ characterisation and thermal management of batteries and development of on-board diagnostic techniques. Ashley also specialises in hydrogen fuel cells where he researches system level modelling, degradation diagnostics, cell/pack manufacturing and whole vehicle thermal management. Ashley’s research spans from fundamental academic research through to applied research in collaboration with industrial partners.
Key research areas:
- Batteries – modelling, thermal management, degradation diagnostics and prognostics
- Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel cells (PEMFC) - modelling, manufacture, testing and analysis
- On-board diagnostics of electrochemical systems; including Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and Incremental Capacity Analysis (ICA)
- Fluid flow and heat transfer in electrochemical devices
- System level analysis and integration
- Evaporative cooling
Grants and contracts:
Co-Investigator (Co-I):
- ViVID – Virtual Vehicle Integration and Development, funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
- Design and development of a four-wheeled electric vehicle for research, teaching and outreach in Tamil Nadu, India. Funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) UK-India Industry Academia Partnership Programme (IAPP)
- Capital Award for Core Equipment, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Current teaching responsibilities:
- Sustainable vehicle powertrains (TTP401)
- Battery technology (TTC202)
- Vehicle Design and Development (TTA107)
Current administrative responsibilities:
- Admissions Tutor
Bin-Mat-Arishad, I, Wimarshana, B, Fly, A (2023) Influence of voltage profile and fitting technique on the accuracy of lithium-ion battery degradation identification through the Voltage Profile Model, Journal of Energy Storage, 70, DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2023.107884.
He, H, Chen, X, Fly, A, Saini, V (2023) A Fast Activation Energy Derivation (FAED) approach for Lumped Single Particle model in lithium-ion battery module-level heat generation prediction, Journal of Power Sources, 580, pp.233431-233431, ISSN: 0378-7753. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233431.
Roy, PK, Shahjalal, M, Shams, T, Fly, A, Stoyanov, S, Ahsan, M, Haider, J (2023) A Critical Review on Battery Aging and State Estimation Technologies of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Prospects and Issues, Electronics, 12(19), pp.4105-4105, DOI: 10.3390/electronics12194105.
Wimarshana, B, Bin-Mat-Arishad, I, Fly, A (2023) A multi-step parameter identification of a physico-chemical lithium-ion battery model with electrochemical impedance data, Journal of Power Sources, 580, 233400, ISSN: 0378-7753. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233400.
Kumaresan, T, Palaniswamy, K, Fly, A, Sundaram, S (2022) Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems, AIP Advances, 12(12), 125316, DOI: 10.1063/5.0121729.
Chakraborty, S, Elangovan, D, Palaniswamy, K, Fly, A, Ravi, D, Seelan, DAS, Rajagopal, TKR (2022) A review on the numerical studies on the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) flow channel designs for automotive applications, Energies, 15(24), 9520, DOI: 10.3390/en15249520.
Huang, Z, Best, M, Knowles, J, Fly, A (2022) Adaptive piecewise equivalent circuit model with SOC/SOH estimation based on extended Kalman filter, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 38(2), pp.959-970, ISSN: 0885-8969. DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2022.3218613.
Broad, R and Fly, A (2022) Influence of geometrical manufacturing tolerances on lithium‐ion battery performance, International Journal of Energy Research, 46(15), pp.23824-23838, ISSN: 0363-907X. DOI: 10.1002/er.8680.
Fly, A, Senake-Ralalage, B, Bin-Mat-Arishad, I, Sarmiento-Carnevali, M (2022) Temperature dependency of diagnostic methods in lithium-ion batteries, Journal of Energy Storage, 52(Part A), 104721, ISSN: 2352-152X. DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2022.104721.
Senake-Ralalage, B, Bin-Mat-Arishad, I, Fly, A (2022) Parameter sensitivity analysis of a physico-chemical lithium-ion battery model with combined discharge voltage and electrochemical impedance data, Journal of Power Sources, 527, 231125, ISSN: 0378-7753. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231125.
External collaborators:
Academic:
- University College London – UK
- Hanbat National University – South Korea
- Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) – South Korea
- Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) – India
- PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Industry:
- Ford Motor Company
- McLaren Applied
- IPG Automotive
- Intelligent Energy
- Rolls-Royce
- Horiba-Mira