Developments in many modern applications are encountering rapid escalation in heat
dissipation, coupled with a need to decrease the size of thermal management hardware …

Desalination of seawater and brackish water is becoming an increasingly important means
to address the scarcity of fresh water resources in the world. Decreasing the energy …

This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Solar still (SS), being one of the convenient solar desalination systems, has been widely
studied in terms of their productivity, efficiency, and economics during the last decades …

Evaporation from thin films is a key feature of many processes, including energy conversion,
microelectronics cooling, boiling, perspiration, and self-assembly operations. The phase …

Flow boiling within microchannels has been explored intensively in the last decade due to
their capability to remove high heat fluxes from microelectronic devices. However, the …

The generation of concentrated heat loads in advanced microprocessors, GaN electronics,
and solar cells present significant thermal management challenges in defense, space and …

Evaporation of liquid is important in a diverse range of engineering applications, such as ink-
jet printing, pesticide spraying, micro-and nanofabrication, thin-film coatings, biochemical …

Critical heat flux (CHF), heat transfer surface temperature, and thermal resistance are
arguably the three most important design and performance parameters for any two-phase …

A numerical model is developed for the evaporating liquid meniscus in wick microstructures
under saturated vapor conditions. Four different wick geometries representing common …