Owing to their high reliability, simplicity of manufacture, passive operation, and effective heat
transport, flat heat pipes and vapor chambers are used extensively in the thermal …

Evaporation rates are predicted and important transport mechanisms identified for
evaporation of water droplets on hydrophobic (contact angle∼ 110°) and superhydrophobic …

The present work proposes a numerical model for the simulation of condensation heat
transfer and fluid flow characteristics in a single microchannel. The model was based on the …

An important reason for the century-long debate concerning wetting dynamics is the lack of
decisive information about the contact line. The contact line cannot be treated as a …

Although evaporation is considered to be a surface phenomenon, the rate of molecular
transport across a liquid–vapor boundary is strongly dependent on the coupled fluid …

The evaporation of water droplets placed on heated hydrophilic, hydrophobic, and
superhydrophobic substrates is numerically investigated. Simplified analytical models for …

Prediction and manipulation of the evaporation of small droplets is a fundamental problem
with importance in a variety of microfluidic, microfabrication, and biomedical applications. A …

High-fidelity simulation of flow boiling in microchannels remains a challenging problem, but
the increasing interest in applications of microscale two-phase transport highlights its …

The three-phase moving contact line present at the base of a bubble in nucleate boiling has
been a widely researched topic over the past few decades. It has been traditionally divided …

Convection in a layer of fluid with a free surface due to a combination of thermocapillary
stresses and buoyancy is one of the classic problems of fluid mechanics. Although …