Temperature dependence of the contact angle of water: A review of research progress, theoretical understanding, and implications for boiling heat transfer

JW Song, LW Fan - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
Contact angle, a quantitative measure of macroscopic surface wettability, plays an important
role in understanding liquid-vapor heterogeneous phase change phenomena, eg, boiling …

Advanced study of spray cooling: from theories to applications

T Zhang, Z Mo, X Xu, X Liu, H Chen, Z Han, Y Yan… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the continuous integration and miniaturization of electronic devices, the heat transfer of
the electronic devices continues to surge. This means that thermal management equipment …

Experimental study on the physical and mechanical variations of hot granite under different cooling treatments

F Kang, T Jia, Y Li, J Deng, X Huang - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy arrested in HDR (hot dry rock) is commonly harvested from the reservoir
fractured by artificial stimulations. Understanding the physical and mechanical behaviors of …

Ultrascalable three-tier hierarchical nanoengineered surfaces for optimized boiling

J Li, W Fu, B Zhang, G Zhu, N Miljkovic - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanostructure-enhanced pool and flow boiling has the potential to increase the efficiency of
a plethora of applications. Past studies have developed well-ordered, nonscalable …

Experimental investigation of pool boiling heat transfer on pillar-structured surfaces with different wettability patterns

Q Li, J Zhao, X Sun, B Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we experimentally investigate the pool boiling heat transfer on pillar-structured
surfaces with different wettability patterns and different values of the channel-to-pillar width …

Boiling crisis due to bubble interactions

L Zhang, S Gong, Z Lu, P Cheng, EN Wang - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
The boiling crisis determines the maximum heat flux for the safe operation of boiling
equipment, which is widely used in various applications including power generation, thermal …

Sustained drag reduction in a turbulent flow using a low-temperature Leidenfrost surface

D Saranadhi, D Chen, JA Kleingartner, S Srinivasan… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Skin friction drag contributes a major portion of the total drag for small and large water
vehicles at high Reynolds number (Re). One emerging approach to reducing drag is to use …

Hydrodynamics of droplet impingement on hot surfaces of varying wettability

CE Clavijo, J Crockett, D Maynes - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
This work presents on the hydrodynamics of water droplet impingement on superheated
solid surfaces across the entire wettability spectrum: superhydrophilic, hydrophilic …

Composite porous surfaces of microcavities for enhancing boiling heat transfer

Q Li, Z Lan, J Chun, R Wen, X Ma - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enhancing boiling heat transfer by surface modification has the potential to increase the
efficiency of energy systems and to address thermal management bottlenecks in electronics …

Temperature dependence of contact angles of water on a stainless steel surface at elevated temperatures and pressures: In situ characterization and thermodynamic …

JW Song, DL Zeng, LW Fan - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Phase change heat transfer (eg, boiling of water) on surfaces can be enhanced by tuning
the surface wettability, which is often quantified by the contact angle and is expected to be …