We provide a comprehensive review of theoretical and experimental studies of several
configurations involving liquid-gas interfaces in contact with heated solid substrates which …

Wetting of corner-containing geometries is ubiquitous, since the man-made surfaces and
natural surfaces are usually not atomically smooth and contain pores, grooves, and cracks …

The heat pipe (HP) receiver with integrated latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) is
one of the key components of solar dynamic space power system (SDPSS). Therefore …

Abstract The Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB), a simple, wickless, heat pipe design that
depends on interfacial forces to drive corner flow in a square cuvette, was studied in the …

A horizontal temperature gradient can cause a flow in a layer of liquid with a free surface via
several different mechanisms. The most universal one is due to thermocapillary stresses that …

Understanding the dynamics of phase change heat and mass transfer in the three-phase
contact line region is a critical step toward improving the efficiency of phase change …

The effect of cooling temperature on heat pipe performance has generally received little
consideration. In this paper, we studied the performance of a Constrained Vapor Bubble …

Bubble nucleation was investigated in a 20-mm-long, wickless heat pipe on the International
Space Station. Over 20 h of running experiments using pentane as the working fluid, more …

Despite considerable research interest due to omnipresent and practical importance of
interfacial phenomena (eg, wetting and dewetting) on nanotextured surfaces in the …

Recent experimental and numerical studies of convection in confined layers of volatile
binary liquids with a free surface subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient have …