Drag reduction plays an important role in improving the efficiency of fluid transport and
reducing the energy consumption of transport vehicles. The essential feature of bubble …

Phase change heat transfer is fundamentally important for thermal energy conversion and
management, such as in electronics with power density over 1 kW/cm2. The critical heat flux …

A variety of industrial applications such as power generation, water distillation, and high-
density cooling rely on heat transfer processes involving boiling. Enhancements to the …

Despite extensive study of boiling processes and their widespread use in industry, critical
interactions between the fluid and surface during boiling remain poorly understood …

Due to the considerably reduced boiling point, organic fluids such as ethanol provide an
attractive alternative to water as the working fluid in two-phase thermal management …

Overcoming friction while generating useful torque is a challenge for micro engines. Here
we report the development of a microscale engine that utilizes transition boiling as a mode …

In order to investigate the effect of surface wettability on the pool boiling heat transfer,
nucleate pool boiling experiments were conducted with deionized water and silica based …

In this paper, the effect of two-phase interface morphology evolution on the flow and heat
transfer characteristics in confined channels are reviewed in detail, which is one of the …

Ultrahigh heat flux of over 1 kW/cm 2 can be achieved by a new thin film boiling regime, of
which the variation of boiling curve is considerably different from that of pool boiling …

The hot wire chemical vapor deposition method was applied for fabrication of hydrophobic
fluoropolymer coatings on the surface of tubular heaters. The effect of hydrophobic surfaces …