[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 …

Improving boiling heat transfer with hydrophilic/hydrophobic patterned flat surface: A molecular dynamics study

W Deng, S Ahmad, H Liu, J Chen, J Zhao - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
The fast development of Internet of Things and MEMS/NEMS technologies has led the
manufacture of chips and sensors towards micro/nano level, yet this poses huge challenges …

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 …

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 …

Tuning surface hybrid-wettability to enhance the vapour film phenomenon induced by boiling heat transfer: Molecular dynamics

W Guo, L Zeng, Y Lu, J Chen - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
Vapour lubrication has great potential in high-temperature microchannel lubrication
systems. However, it is challenging to design the most-optimized surface for enhancing the …

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics study on energy accommodation coefficient on condensing liquid surface—Molecular boundary conditions for heat and mass …

A Tokunaga, T Tsuruta - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) studies have been conducted to determine
molecular boundary conditions at vapor–liquid interfaces for the kinetic theory of …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of Surface Wettability of Nanostructure Morphology Enhancing Boiling Heat Transfer: Molecular Dynamics Simulation

W Guo, L Zeng, Z Liu - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the interaction mechanism between the solid–liquid–gas interface
phenomenon caused by nanostructure and surface wettability and boiling heat transfer is …

Effect of inter-pore interference on liquid evaporation rates from nanopores by direct simulation Monte Carlo

R Li, Z Yan, G Xia - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid evaporation from micro/nanoscale pores is widely encountered in cutting-edge
technologies and applications. Due to its two-or three-dimensional features, the nano …

Nanobubble-Induced Aggregation of Ultrafine Particles: A Molecular Dynamics Study

E Bird, Z Liang - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanobubble-induced aggregation (NBIA) of fine and ultrafine particles in liquid is a
promising method for enhancing floatation rates in mineral processing, cleaning …

Tuning thermal and electrical properties of MXenes via dehydration

L Yu, D Huang, X Wang, W Yu, Y Yue - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, MXenes (a class of two-dimensional transition metal carbides) have attracted
great attention in various applications such as humidity sensors, owing to their unique …