Physical principles and state-of-the-art of modeling of the pulsating heat pipe: A review

VS Nikolayev - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The Pulsating (called also oscillating) Heat Pipe (PHP) is a high performance passive heat
transfer device. It consists in a closed capillary channel folded into several meanders …

Review of boiling heat transfer enhancement on micro/nanostructured surfaces

DE Kim, DI Yu, DW Jerng, MH Kim, HS Ahn - Experimental Thermal and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the recent decades, the rapid growth of surface modification and fabrication technologies
has facilitated the achievement of boiling heat transfer enhancement on …

Boiling heat transfer and bubble dynamics in microgravity

J Straub - Advances in Heat Transfer, 2001 - Elsevier
This article presents results for pool boiling heat transfer under microgravity conditions that
the author and his team have gained in a succession of experiments during the past two …

Contact angles and interface behavior during rapid evaporation of liquid on a heated surface

SG Kandlikar, ME Steinke - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2002 - Elsevier
Photographic observations of the boiling phenomena have played an important role in
gaining insight into the boiling mechanism. This paper presents a brief historical review of …

Flow boiling enhancement using three-dimensional contact-line pinning on hierarchical superbiphilic micro/nanostructures

C Salmean, H Qiu - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flow boiling is a promising method for the cooling of sensitive computational and industrial
components, facilitating the transportation of large quantities of heat at near-constant …

Mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann modeling of the liquid-vapor phase transition

R Huang, H Wu, NA Adams - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We develop a mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann model for liquid-vapor phase transition by
handling the microscopic molecular interaction. The short-range molecular interaction is …

Effects of surface wettability on pool boiling process: Dynamic and thermal behaviors of dry spots and relevant critical heat flux triggering mechanism

H Kim, DE Kim - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate experimentally and numerically the influences of surface
wettability on the boiling process from nucleate boiling to critical heat flux (CHF). The boiling …

Heat transfer and recovery performance enhancement of metal and superconducting tapes under high current pulses for improving fault current-limiting behavior of …

M Yazdani-Asrami, M Staines, G Sidorov… - Superconductor …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) transformer windings operate subcooled at
atmospheric pressure to temperatures as low as 65 K, with minimal power dissipation from …

Coalescence of sessile drops

C Andrieu, DA Beysens, VS Nikolayev… - Journal of Fluid …, 2002 - cambridge.org
We present an experimental and theoretical description of the kinetics of coalescence of two
water drops on a plane solid surface. The case of partial wetting is considered. The drops …

Interface profiles near three-phase contact lines in electric fields

J Buehrle, S Herminghaus, F Mugele - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
Long-range electrostatic fields deform the surface profile of a conductive liquid in the vicinity
of the contact line. We have investigated the equilibrium profiles by balancing electrostatic …