Bubble dynamics is a crucial means to study the heat transfer characteristics of subcooled
flow boiling. However, the small size, complex behavior, as well as difficult-to-measure …

Boiling is an efficient heat transfer mode with significant potential for thermal management in
high-power electronic equipment. However, a comprehensive understanding of the boiling …

The microlayer evaporation below the vapor bubble contributes much to heat dissipation
and bubble growth, but it is hard to explore this microcosmic phenomenon. This study …

The dynamics of the microlayer beneath a growing bubble in nucleate boiling significantly
impacts the heat-transfer characteristics of the process. The minute thickness of the …

Formation of a microlayer in nucleate boiling results in substantial changes to the heat-
transfer dynamics of the process, and establishing a criterion to distinguish between the …

Boiling is an effective heat removal process, used for heat exchange and thermal
management purposes in many technological applications, from the scale of microelectronic …

Capturing the dynamics of the triple contact line at the base of a vapor bubble is crucial to
the development and validation of boiling heat transfer and boiling crisis models. To this …

Wetting is fundamental to many technological applications that involve the motion of the fluid–
fluid interface on a solid. While static wetting is well-understood in the context of …

We experimentally investigate the near-wall heat transfer at single bubble growth in
nucleate saturated pool boiling of water at atmospheric pressure. Our focus is on the …

Capturing the dynamics of dry area patches on a boiling surface is crucial to understanding
and evaluating mechanistic heat flux partitioning and boiling crisis models. We present and …