A review of cryogenic quasi-steady liquid-vapor phase change: Theories, models, and state-of-the-art applications

Z Zuo, W Zhu, Y Huang, L Wang, L Tong - International Journal of Heat and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent developments in deep space exploration and renewable energy transition
involve many critical topics on cryogenic fluids, including cryogenic propellant management …

Bridging Innovations of Phase Change Heat Transfer to Electrochemical Gas Evolution Reactions

L Zhang, R Iwata, Z Lu, X Wang, CD Díaz-Marín… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bubbles play a ubiquitous role in electrochemical gas evolution reactions. However, a
mechanistic understanding of how bubbles affect the energy efficiency of electrochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Capillary-fed, thin film evaporation devices

G Vaartstra, L Zhang, Z Lu, CD Díaz-Marín… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Evaporation plays a critical role in a range of technologies that power and sustain our
society. Wicks are widely used as passive, capillary-fed evaporators, attracting much interest …

Interfacial cooling and heating, temperature discontinuity and inversion in evaporation and condensation

G Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Although ubiquitous in nature and industrial processes, transport processes at the interface
during evaporation and condensation are still poorly understood. Experiments have shown …

Molecular simulation of steady-state evaporation and condensation of water in air

E Bird, JG Plascencia, P Keblinski, Z Liang - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 of an evaporating droplet: A molecular dynamics study

JG Plascencia, E Bird, Z Liang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Molecular dynamics simulations of thin-film evaporation: The influence of interfacial thermal resistance on a graphene-coated heated silicon substrate

B Ma, K Guye, B Dogruoz, D Agonafer - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Two-phase liquid cooling on nanoengineered surfaces has shown great promise for tackling
overheating in high performance microelectronics. At the nanoscale, phase change heat …

Investigating the validity of Schrage relationships for water using molecular dynamics simulations

A Chandra, P Keblinski - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were utilized to show that Schrage theory
predicts evaporation/condensation mass fluxes with good accuracy in the case of …

Transport phenomena in the Knudsen layer near an evaporating surface

E Bird, Z Liang - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Using the combination of the kinetic theory of gases (KTG), Boltzmann transport equation
(BTE), and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we study the transport phenomena in the …

Molecular dynamics simulations and mathematical optimization method for surface structures regarding evaporation heat transfer enhancement at the nanoscale

Q Cao, W Shao, Z Cui - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
Surfaces with nanostructures can significantly enhance the evaporation heat transfer
process. Most previous investigations on the designed surface structures using the empirical …