Original Article
  • Permeability Prediction of Gas Diffusion Layers for PEMFC Using Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks and Morphological Features Extracted from X-ray Tomography Images

  • Hangil You*, Gun Jin Yun*†

  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University

  • 삼차원 합성곱 신경망과 X선 단층 영상에서 추출한 형태학적 특징을 이용한 PEMFC용 가스확산층의 투과도 예측

  • 유한길*·윤군진*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Gun Jin Yun

  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University

  • E-mail: gunjin.yun@snu.ac.kr