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