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The model avoids resolving multiple length scales by adopting the thin double-layer approximation on electrochemical interfaces and enforcing local electroneutrality through an elliptic constraint on the electric potential. A series of test cases were run that function as verification exercises, exploratory studies, and regression tests. A microbenchmark from the exaFOAM supercomputing project was ported to test the non-electrochemical components of the solver. Quantitative agreement with reference data was obtained. Two planar-electrode problems were examined: a one-dimensional half-cell with ion depletion, and a two-electrode metal deposition case with Butler–Volmer kinetics. Although depletion and deposition behavior was observed in each case respectively, quantitative agreement was not obtained for both cases. 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