Boiling heat transfer in microchannels has been a very hot topic in heat transfer research
over the past two decades, fuelled by the dramatic need for high heat flux cooling of …

The Schrage equation is commonly used in thermofluid engineering to model high-rate
liquid–vapor phase change of pure fluids. Although shortcomings of this simple model were …

The fast development of Internet of Things and MEMS/NEMS technologies has led the
manufacture of chips and sensors towards micro/nano level, yet this poses huge challenges …

Although ubiquitous in nature and industrial processes, transport processes at the interface
during evaporation and condensation are still poorly understood. Experiments have shown …

It was shown in recent experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that Schrage
equation predicts evaporation and condensation rates of water in the absence of a non …

Thermal and mass transfer resistance at a liquid-gas interface could strongly affect the
evaporation of a micro/nanodroplet. One of the challenges in the investigation of heat and …

Although it has been shown experimentally that a temperature discontinuity exists at the
liquid-vapor interface during evaporation and condensation, quantitatively modeling this …

Evaporation is a physical phenomenon with fundamental significance to both nature and
technology ranging from plant transpiration to DNA engineering. Various analytical and …

The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze several types of instabilities as
condensation oscillations (CO), stable condensation oscillations (SC), and bubbling …

Phase-change heat transfer processes involving water play a key role in numerous societal
applications, such as electrical power generation, microelectronics cooling, or water …