The Marangoni effect—often invoked to describe the so-called “tears of wine”—is in essence
the mass transfer along an interface between two fluids due to a gradient of the surface …

A liquid droplet placed on a nonuniformly heated solid surface will migrate from a high-
temperature region to a low-temperature region. This study reports the development of a …

In the present work, the effect of temperature gradient on the behavior of a water nano-
droplet resting on a suspended graphene was studied based on a non-equilibrium …

In the absence of significant body forces the passive manipulation of fluid interfacial flows is
naturally achieved by control of the specific geometry and wetting properties of the system …

Convection in a layer of fluid with a free surface due to a combination of thermocapillary
stresses and buoyancy has been studied extensively under atmospheric conditions …

Many technological applications rely on the phenomenon of wicking flow induced by
capillarity. However, despite a continuing interest in the subject, the influence of the capillary …

The progressive evaporation and condensation processes in a micro heat pipe, with which
high heat fluxes at the liquid–vapor interface are associated, render it a device of high …

Recent experimental studies have shown that buoyancy–thermocapillary convection in a
layer of volatile liquid subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient is strongly affected by …

Flat heat pipes have been used in cooling computer chips. However, previous models
impose heat rate through the pipe as an input parameter, preventing optimization of heat …

Microscale heat transfer is vital for the performance of smart thermal devices like heat sinks,
thermosyphons, and microheat pipes. This study introduces a biothermal pumping flow …