such as the choice and handling of fuels, the lack of infrastructure for hydrogen storage, the high cost of this, etc. The technology of fuel cells is sufficiently developed for its commercialization, except for the cost, which is still very high. Therefore, the most important technological and scientific activity in the development of fuel cells is aimed at reducing costs and improving their performance. The development and application of new configurations of collector plate geometries is a fundamental aspect to improve the efficiency of fuel cells. In the literature, many researchers continually report new findings and proposals for improvement or new geometries, which allow different aspects of the technology and fuel cell efficiency to be improved, but they are still not enough to reduce the costs involved in the development of this technology. In the following years, it is expected to reduce the cost of manufacturing fuel cells so that they are economically viable and mass production can occur, at least. In the short term, it is expected that fuel cell application will be present in the power generation and remote power distribution systems. The essential components of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) are an anodic catalyst layer, an electrolyte, a cathodic catalyst layer, and current collectors. Additionally, gaskets for preventing gas leakage between the anode and the cathode have to be considered. Current collectors, which also provide the conduits for gas distribution, are bipolar plates in a stack; they occupy over 90% of the volume and contribute 80% of the mass of a fuel cell stack. Flow fields can be effectively designed through the optimization of their configuration and shape, thus resulting in improved current collectors. This is desirable for achieving higher electrical power. Therefore, the study of various plate designs was performed by simulating the processes within a PEMFC. Three different versions of serpentine gas flow field design were investigated because it is usually the reference of choice in the literature. Some of the main points about the performance of fuel cells can be mentioned: (a) for fuel cell energy systems, the development of appropriate thermal management is a fundamental issue [2]; (b) the flowfield channel of a PEM fuel cell can enhance the mass transfer of reactant gas from the channel into the catalyst layer and improve cell performance [3]; (c) the design of the geometries is fundamental in the operation of the fuel cell [4]; (d) fuel cell technology is an alternative in the use of alternative energy [5]; (e) companies such as Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have been developing fuel cell (FC) technology since 1992; TMC created a new fuel cell in 2008 that improved the removal of water and gas diffusion by adopting a newly-developed three-dimensional (3D) fine-mesh flow field at the cathode, and through the use of fuel cells, the performance in car engines has been improved [6;7]; (f) the pressure drop is one of the factors that influences the overall performance of the cell, both directly and indirectly through the interaction with other factors, including water management in the cell; different designs were analyzed through computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and the effect of varying the flow rate on the pressure drop for each of the designs modeled was studied [8]; (g) the flow distribution obtained with three different bipolar plate geometries has been studied, analyzing their fluid dynamic performance. Three plate topologies were selected in a way representative of different design models commonly used from experimental and numerical simulations, and using simulation, it was possible to determine the most optimal channel geometry [9]. Our versions consisted of typical serpentine flow channel design, which has a cross-section of around 1 mm\({}^{2}\) and a length of up to a few meters, with many changes in flow direction. The fourth design consisted of a crisscross pattern [8;9].