Nowadays, superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted a lot of interest because of the wide
range of applications in industries. These surfaces can significantly reduce the drag force …

After a long period of biological evolution, natural creatures will inevitably evolve body
surfaces suitable for the living environment. The functions of natural biological surfaces are …

Nowadays, one of the biggest concerns in the world is increasing the CO 2 emissions and
global warming due to the over-consumption of fossil fuels. In addition, under the intense …

Surface drag resistance would cause energy waste in transportation industrials and vascular
stenosis in biomedicine field, which is still an urgent problem to be solved. Selecting widely …

Friction drag is a nonnegligible matter when relative motion happens between solid and
liquid phase, which brings many inconveniences in ship navigation, fluid transportation …

Due to the high performance of hydrophobic surfaces in pressure drop reduction, they have
been proposed for various applications. However, despite the extensive uses of two-phase …

Bioinspired grooved surface structure design has been widely used as an efficient passive
flow control method in drag reduction. The total drag of plate with grooved surface structure …

Researchers all over the world are working to produce improved polymeric materials
suitable for cutting-edge advanced applications that will eventually replace traditional …

Using hydrophobic surfaces is one of the efficient methods to preserve energy in fluid
transfer systems. However, the studies have been concentrated on Newtonian fluids despite …

A complete cycle of droplet nucleation, growth, coalescence and jumping on different
textured hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces is studied for the first time, using a 2-D …