Rapid increase in heat fluxes within a small area in microelectronic, defense, energy, solar
and medical components has spurred an urgent need for two-phase microchannel heat …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of published articles addressing passive
enhancement of pool boiling using surface modification techniques. They include …

As an effective way to strengthen pool boiling, surface modification has been widely studied
by many scholars. In this paper, the enhancement of pool boiling heat transfer by regular …

Metal foam is a novel multifunctional material with high porosity, high specific surface area,
and excellent heat transfer performance. Embedding metal foams into phase change heat …

This study reviews recent experimental investigations performed on pool and flow boiling
over nano-and micro engineered structures for enhancements in boiling heat transfer …

Open-cell metal foam has a great potential for manufacturing compact heat exchangers in
energy conservation systems due to the advantages of large specific surface area and high …

Pool boiling has gained tremendous attention in an efficient transferring of high thermal
energy for diverse industrial applications. Surface coating is considered as a common …

Porous structures with reentrant cavities (PS–RC) were proposed and developed for pool
boiling cooling systems. They were totally constructed by sintered copper powder via a solid …

Methanol steam reforming microreactor is regarded as one of the effective approaches for
online hydrogen source for fuel cells and the catalyst support is one of the most important …

In this work, hydrophobic copper micro-structured (HCM) surfaces are prepared to improve
boiling heat transfer. A combination of chemical etching and heat treatment processes is …