This paper provides a comprehensive review of published literatures concerning the fluid
mechanics and heat transfer mechanisms of liquid drop impact on a heated wall. The review …

This review discusses how drops can levitate on a cushion of vapor when brought in contact
with a hot solid. This is the so-called Leidenfrost phenomenon, a dynamical and transient …

It has been recently shown that the presence of macrotextures on superhydrophobic
materials can markedly modify the dynamics of water impacting them, and in particular …

Liquid mobility on super-wettable materials is of interest for enhanced heat transfer, self-
cleaning, anti-fouling, anti-icing, water-harvesting, and oil–water separation. Here, we …

An evaporating drop placed on a ratchet self-propels, as discovered by Linke et al. in 2006.
Sublimating platelets do the same, and we discuss here a possible viscous mechanism for …

We show that thermal creep is at the origin of the recently discovered Leidenfrost ratchet,
where liquid droplets float on a vapor layer along a heated sawtooth surface and accelerate …

Under non-equilibrium conditions, liquid droplets coupled to their environment by sustained
flows of matter and/or energy can become “active” systems capable of various life-like …

Leidenfrost phenomena on nano-and microstructured surfaces are of great importance for
increasing control over heat transfer in high power density systems utilizing boiling …

The Leidenfrost effect occurs when a drop of liquid (or a sublimating solid) is levitated above
a sufficiently hot surface through the action of an insulating vapour layer flowing from its …

In this paper, the self-propelled motion of Leidenfrost droplets on ratchet surfaces is
numerically investigated using a thermal multiphase lattice Boltzmann model with liquid …