# Simulating Thermal Behavior of a Wound Battery Cell **URL:** https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/simulating-thermal-behavior-of-a-wound-battery-cell/2778 **Category:** General Questions **Created:** [June 17, 2025, 9:32am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/simulating-thermal-behavior-of-a-wound-battery-cell/2778 "2025-06-17T09:32:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![KilianK1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@KilianK1](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/KilianK1) #### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/simulating-thermal-behavior-of-a-wound-battery-cell/2778/10 "2025-07-14T09:40:28Z")
Thanks! I’m now quite happy with the level of control I have over the meshing. One additional thing I’m wondering about: would it make sense to use the Thicken Shell Mesh option for this model? So far, I’ve been modeling each layer in the foil stack as a separate spiral shell. I then apply the appropriate thicknesses via material sections and manually define contact pairs to reconnect the layers using tie constraints, but this feels a bit cumbersome. However, it seems that using a single spiral shell and leveraging Thicken Shell Mesh to define multiple layers could get me quite close to the behavior I’m aiming for. The problem is: I’m unsure how to assign different material sections or layer thicknesses to the individual layers when using this approach. I found a thread on the forum that seems to ask a similar question: [Thicken Shell Mesh, retain layer information](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/thicken-shell-mesh-retain-layer-information/2415), but I am having some trouble with understanding the answer given by @synt. Can/should Thicken Shell Mesh be used in this context? Or would a different method be more suitable? --- _[View the full topic](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/simulating-thermal-behavior-of-a-wound-battery-cell/2778)._