A review on fabrication and pool boiling enhancement of three-dimensional complex structures

Y Sun, Y Tang, S Zhang, W Yuan, H Tang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pool boiling with high energy conversion efficiency is critical to steam generation,
electronics cooling, water purification, and other energy applications. Great efforts have …

Review of pool and flow boiling heat transfer enhancement through surface modification

SK Singh, D Sharma - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
Boiling is the most significant phase change phenomena for various applications such as
cooling of electronic devices, heat pipes, cooling in nuclear reactor, different industrial …

Review of two types of surface modification on pool boiling enhancement: Passive and active

W Li, R Dai, M Zeng, Q Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many methods for enhancing nucleate pool boiling have been proposed to improve the two-
phase heat transfer performance in recent years. This article offers a comprehensive …

Experimental investigation of pool boiling heat transfer on pillar-structured surfaces with different wettability patterns

Q Li, J Zhao, X Sun, B Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we experimentally investigate the pool boiling heat transfer on pillar-structured
surfaces with different wettability patterns and different values of the channel-to-pillar width …

Enhanced pool boiling on microstructured surfaces with spatially-controlled mixed wettability

XZ Sun, Q Li, WX Li, ZX Wen, B Liu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface wettability is a very important factor that affects the pool boiling heat transfer
performance and the surfaces with mixed wettability have attracted much attention in recent …

Effect of modified surfaces on bubble dynamics and pool boiling heat transfer enhancement: A review

A Mehralizadeh, SR Shabanian, G Bakeri - Thermal Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The vast application of boiling phenomena in industrial processes has led scientists to seek
methods to increase boiling heat transfer. This requires a precise prediction of the boiling …

Pool boiling heat transfer and bubble dynamics of modified copper micro-structured surfaces

P Sen, S Kalita, D Sen, AK Das, BB Saha - … Communications in Heat and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, hydrophobic copper micro-structured (HCM) surfaces are prepared to improve
boiling heat transfer. A combination of chemical etching and heat treatment processes is …

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 …

Nucleate boiling of thin liquid films on nanostructured surfaces with hybrid wettability using molecular dynamics simulation

L Zhang, J Xu - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
The development in nanotechnology and bionics has increased the application of hybrid
wettable nanostructured surfaces in engineering and science research. This study employed …

Nucleate boiling enhancement by structured surfaces with distributed wettability-modified regions: A lattice Boltzmann study

WX Li, Q Li, Y Yu, KH Luo - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we conceive a novel pillar-structured surface for enhancing nucleate boiling
heat transfer, namely a pillar-structured surface with distributed wettability-modified regions …