Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Role of nanoparticles in nanofluid droplet impact on solid surfaces

YT Aksoy, L Liu, M Abboud, MR Vetrano, E Koos - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Splashing of a liquid droplet onto a substrate, while ubiquitous, sits at the intersection of
several key fluid mechanical regions. Typically, this problem is often simplified to the …

Simultaneous double droplet impact on a molten phase change material pool: An experimental investigation

P Poureslami, S Faghiri, MB Shafii - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Although momentous in numerous authentic applications, multiple droplet impacts on the
liquid pool are overlooked in most studies. Hence, the impingement of simultaneous double …

Universal model for predicting maximum spreading of drop impact on a smooth surface developed using boosting machine learning models

J Tang, S Yu, X Hou, T Wu, H Liu - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Drop impact on a solid surface is a fundamental phenomenon in nature and engineering.
Prediction of the maximum spreading ratio during drop impact is critical for modeling and …

Surface design of superhydrophobic parallel grooves for controllable petal bouncing and contact time reduction

J Du, X Wang, Y Li, Q Min - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This study numerically investigates the bouncing characteristics of impacting droplets on
superhydrophobic sub-millimeter parallel grooves by the level-set method. Once the Weber …

Experimental investigation of the influence of nanoparticles on droplet spreading dynamics and heat transfer during early stage cooling

YT Aksoy, G Castanet, P Eneren… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing interest in improving high-performance cooling systems, research on
droplet cooling requires more complex methods for enhancing heat transfer. Hence, we …

Physical mechanism of material flow and temperature distribution in keyhole plasma arc welding at initial unstable stage

J Liu, F Jiang, B Xu, G Zhang, S Chen - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The initial unstable stage associated with keyhole plasma arc welding affects the stability
and quality heavily, especially in the non-vertical welding position, which is difficult to control …

Spray Cooling Investigation of TiO2–Water Nanofluids on a Hot Surface

YT Aksoy, H Cornelissen, P Eneren, MR Vetrano - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spray cooling is a heat transfer technology that has already shown its advantages and
limitations. There has been increasing interest from academia and industry in combining this …

Scaling laws for the contact time of impacting nanodroplets: From hydrophobic to superhydrophobic surfaces

Q Ma, YF Wang, YB Wang, BX Zhang, SF Zheng… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nanodroplet impacts have attracted significant attention, while the effect of surface
wettability on contact time is evaluated poorly. Utilizing molecular dynamics simulations, the …

Uncovering the effect of physical conditions and surface roughness on the maximum spreading factor of impinging droplets using a supervised artificial neural network …

R Choudhury, DMT Nasir, DR Kaiser… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The phenomenon of liquid droplet impingement on solid surfaces is particularly important in
industrial applications related to spray coating, thermal spraying, inkjet printing, spray …