Heat transfer during multiple droplet impingement and spray cooling: Review and prospects for enhanced surfaces

JD Benther, JD Pelaez-Restrepo, C Stanley… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many systems require very high heat removal rates in small areas due to the increase in
their packing density, such as power electronics. These systems need to be cooled to …

Spray impingement cooling: The state of the art

X Gao, R Li - Advanced cooling technologies and applications, 2018 - books.google.com
The cooling of a surface can be achieved by the impingement of spray, which is a free
surface flow of droplets ejected from a spray nozzle. Spray cooling can provide uniform …

Pool boiling on a biphilic surface where bubbles can move horizontally on the surface

Y Xia, R Li, X Gao, R Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
In pool boiling on a horizontal surface, the flow of vapor is mainly the departure of vapor
bubbles from the boiling surface. If the surface is composed of specially laid-out areas with …

Two-phase heat transfer of multi-droplet impact on liquid film

G Liang, T Zhang, Y Chen, L Chen, S Shen - International Journal of Heat …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multi-droplet impact on a liquid/vapor two-phase thin liquid film covering a heated wall is
numerically studied using a three-dimensional model with an implement of a random …

Central uprising sheet in simultaneous and near-simultaneous impact of two high kinetic energy droplets onto dry surface and thin liquid film

NE Ersoy, M Eslamian - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet impact on both dry and wet surfaces is present in several applications, and often
multiple droplets, instead of one single droplet, are involved. This paper focuses on the …

Heat transfer characteristics of controlled droplet trains impacting solid surfaces

X Gao, Y Li, Y Xia, X Gao, R Li, H Li - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
The unpredictable spray characterization caused by different manufacturing standards still
limits the implementation of spray cooling. To obtain a predictable spray, a droplet generator …

Surface effects on sub-cooled pool boiling for smooth and laser-ablated silicon surfaces

Y Xia, X Gao, R Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
Smooth and laser-ablated silicon surfaces with wettability ranging from SHI (super-
hydrophilic) to SHO (super-hydrophobic) are tested in subcooled pool boiling of water. The …

Hydrodynamic pattern transition of droplet train impinging onto heated titanium substrates with or without nanotube coating

S Shen, W Tong, F Duan - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
The impingement of ethanol droplet train on the heated titanium substrates without or with
the titanium oxide nanotube coating has been experimentally investigated in close view. The …

Numerical simulation analysis of symmetric impact of two droplets on a liquid film

J Tao, D Chen, Z Lin, Z Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Analyzing the impact of a droplet on a liquid film is a typical free-surface problem. However,
a few studies have investigated the impact of multiple droplets, and in most cases, the …

Numerical study on flow and heat transfer characteristics of two oil droplets impinging the wall simultaneously under the influence of micro-bubble

N Zheng, B Tong, G Zhang, X Hu, H Liang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the process of oil-gas micro lubrication, affected by high pressure, temperature and other
factors, part of the air in the transportation pipeline will be mixed into the oil liquid or part of …