Some researchers tried to fill this gap. Direct measurements of the flow may be achieved by laser-optical methods which provide velocity data with high fidelity. Grega at al [6]. and Lebaek et al. [7] applied the well-established Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to gain flow data within the manifold of fuel cell stack models. Comparison with numerical results clearly demonstrated that numerical simulations of the fluidic system of a fuel cell stack need to be done very carefully. For instance, the choice of the turbulence model of the Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulation significantly changes the result. The major drawback of PIV is the difficulty to apply this technique to small geometries since it needs two optical accesses to the system and spatial resolution may be poor, especially close to walls. Additionally, flow measurements in fuel cell models do not account for mass flow changes due to internal effects which may change the flow distribution as predicted e.g. by Chang et al. [3].