The use of floating bipolar electrodes in copper electro-winning cells represents an emerging technology that promises economic and operational impacts. This thesis presents EWCellCAD, a computational tool designed for the simulation and analysis of these electrochemical systems. Based on the generalization and optimization of an existing 2D finite difference model for calculating electrical variables in rectangular cells, EWCellCAD implements a new 3D model capable of processing complex geometries, not necessarily rectangular, which also accelerates calculations by several orders of magnitude. At the same time, a new analytical method for estimating potentials in floating electrodes is introduced, overcoming the inaccuracies of previous heuristic approaches. The analysis of the results is supported by an interactive visualization technique of three-dimensional vector fields as flow lines.

翻译：在铜电解提取槽中使用浮动双极电极代表着一项新兴技术，具有显著的经济与操作效益。本论文提出EWCellCAD，一款专为此类电化学系统仿真与分析设计的计算工具。该工具基于对现有矩形槽电学变量计算二维有限差分模型的推广与优化，实现了能够处理复杂（非必为矩形）几何结构的三维模型，并将计算速度提升了数个数量级。同时，本文引入了一种估算浮动电极电势的新解析方法，克服了以往启发式方法的不准确性。研究结果的分析通过一种三维矢量场流线交互可视化技术予以支持。