Climate change along with our insatiable need for energy demand a paradigm shift towards
more rational and sustainable use of energy. To drive this transition, the deployment of …

The thermal energy exchange between a flowing fluid and its confining channel is a
ubiquitous process in modern society. To enhance the fluid-to-wall or wall-to-fluid heat …

Interest in new thermal diodes, regulators, and switches has been rapidly growing because
these components have the potential for rich transport phenomena that cannot be achieved …

Liquid-vapor phase-change processes have been widely exploited in industrial applications
including power generation, water processing and harvesting, cooling/refrigeration and …

Two-phase internal flow is ubiquitous to many systems due to its ability to transfer large
amounts of heat effectively. Recent advances motivated by sustainability have pushed …

Condensation is of paramount importance in numerous technological applications where
phase change processes take place. The physical nature of condensation from vapor to …

Droplet transport on, and shedding from, surfaces is ubiquitous in nature and is a key
phenomenon governing applications including biofluidics, self-cleaning, anti-icing, water …

With the recent advances in surface fabrication technologies, condensation heat transfer has
seen a renaissance. Hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces have all been employed …

Demand for enhanced cooling technologies within various commercial and consumer
applications has increased in recent decades due to electronic devices becoming more …

Vapor condensation is a crucial phenomenon governing the efficiency of many processes. In
particular, dropwise condensation on hydrophobic thin films (≈ 100 nm‐thick) has the …