Implementing superhydrophobic surfaces within various condensation environments: a review

NS Singh, J Zhang, J Stafford… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Steam condensation is omnipresent, and inevitable in many industrial processes. A classic
example is seen within condensers that are used to liquify various gasses. In consequence …

Heat transfer characteristics of plug-in oscillating heat pipe with binary-fluid mixtures for electric vehicle battery thermal management

A Wei, J Qu, H Qiu, C Wang, G Cao - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of highly-efficient, cost-effective, and reliable cooling schemes of electric
vehicle (EV) battery is still a big challenge for massive commercialization of EVs. In this …

Marangoni convection within thermosolute and absorptive aqueous LiBr solution

DA Makarim, A Suami, AT Wijayanta… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Marangoni convection during steam absorption into an aqueous lithium bromide (LiBr)
solution is investigated numerically. In order to obtain a better understanding of the physical …

Analysis of entropy generation in combined buoyancy-Marangoni convection of power-law nanofluids in 3D heterogeneous porous media

YJ Zhuang, QY Zhu - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, entropy generation due to the combined buoyancy-Marangoni convection of
non-Newtonian power-law nanofluids in a 3D heterogeneous porous cubic cavity is …

A particle-based image segmentation method for phase separation and interface detection in PIV images of immiscible multiphase flow

Y Li, G Blois, F Kazemifar… - … Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is a valuable tool for experimentally studying multiphase
flows. In order to distinguish the flow dynamics of each individual phase, proper image …

Experimental and analytical study on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer of R134a/R245fa zeotropic mixtures

C Dang, L Jia, Q Peng, Q Huang, X Zhang - International Journal of Heat …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of zeotropic
binary mixtures (R134a/R245fa) with different blending ratios, as well as their pure …

Experimental investigation on flow boiling characteristics of zeotropic binary mixtures (R134a/R245fa) in a rectangular micro-channel

C Dang, L Jia, X Zhang, Q Huang, M Xu - International Journal of Heat and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study, the flow boiling characteristics of R134a/R245fa zeotropic mixtures with
three mass fractions (10/90, 30/70 and 70/30 by wt%) in a single rectangular micro-channel …

Design and fabrication of a novel on-chip pressure sensor for microchannels

N Raventhiran, RS Molla, K Nandishwara, E Johnson… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Pressure is important in virtually all problems in fluid dynamics from macro-scale to
micro/nano-scale flows. Although technologies are well developed for its measurement at …

Effect of constant heat source/sink on single component Marangoni convection in a composite layer bounded by adiabatic boundaries in presence of uniform & non …

R Sumithra, RK Vanishree… - Malaya Journal of …, 2020 - malayajournal.org
Abstract The Single component Marangoni convection is investigated in a composite layer,
comprising of an incompressible single component fluid saturated porous layer over which …

Pattern formation in buoyant-thermocapillary convection currents in thin liquid layers: A comparison of numerical simulations and experiments

M Kudo, T Ochi - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report on three-dimensional numerical simulations of buoyant-
thermocapillary convection in thin liquid layers, to study the formation of hydrothermal waves …