Rapid increase in heat fluxes within a small area in microelectronic, defense, energy, solar
and medical components has spurred an urgent need for two-phase microchannel heat …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of published articles addressing passive
enhancement of pool boiling using surface modification techniques. They include …

Metal foam is a novel multifunctional material with high porosity, high specific surface area,
and excellent heat transfer performance. Embedding metal foams into phase change heat …

Open-cell metal foam has a great potential for manufacturing compact heat exchangers in
energy conservation systems due to the advantages of large specific surface area and high …

Metal foams are a class of cellular structured materials with open cells randomly oriented
and mostly homogeneous in size and shape. In the last decade, several authors have …

Owing to the high nucleation site density and relatively robust behavior, sintered coated
surfaces are of great interest for thermal management via pool boiling in many …

Graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) are known for their excellent thermal and mechanical
properties making them suitable candidates for a variety of engineering applications. In this …

The work presented in this paper focuses on the pool boiling performance and durability of
the porous copper surface coatings generated through a multi-step electrodeposition …

Main challenges in saturated pool-boiling heat transfer are limited Critical Heat Flux (CHF)
and Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC), caused by the counterflow of liquid and vapor over the …

Nano-engineered surfaces have shown great promise in improving boiling heat flux and
heat transfer coefficient for thermal management. Electrodeposited copper foams have …