Design of a Smart Wettability-Regulating Surface for Enhancing Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Y Hu, C Wang, Y He - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The wettability of a heating surface has a significant effect on boiling heat transfer (BHT).
However, the requirements of the boiling process for surface wettability under different …

Simulation of Slag Droplet Entrainment by Volume of Fluid and Lagrangian Particle Tracking Coupled Modeling

L Li, G Wei, Z Zhu, B Li - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
The slag droplet entrainment is a common phenomenon in steel refining processes, which
may lead to inclusions and defects. In the multiphase flow system, the distinct interface and …

Simulating film boiling with sharp interface and direct calculation of mass transfer to investigate the hydrodynamic and thermal transport phenomena near the interface

D Pal, I Perez-Raya - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
The current study presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for film boiling using
two fluids, including liquid nitrogen. Ansys Fluent was customized using user-defined …

Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Minimum Film Boiling Temperature Considering the Surface Roughness Effect

J Tang, S Yu, Z Gong, H Liu - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The minimum film boiling (MFB) temperature, a crucial industrial design parameter for
nuclear reactors, cryogenic milling, and grinding, refers to the lowest sustainable …

Influence of surface morphology and temperature on nanoscale boiling of liquid nitrogen on a platinum substrate

I Kumar, SK Lahiri, A Hens, G Biswas - International Journal of Thermal …, 2025 - Elsevier
The present study employs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the boiling
phenomenon of liquid nitrogen at molecular level. The simulation involves a nano-scale …

Effect of pressure variations on film boiling characteristics of liquid nitrogen

I Kumar, AK Roy, A Hens - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid nitrogen is a widely used cryogenic fluid in various industrial and scientific
applications. Film boiling is inevitable when a hot surface is exposed to a cryogenic fluid like …

A Continuum and Molecular Dynamics-based Simulation Study of Boiling in Liquid Nitrogen

I Kumar, A Hens - Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2023 - cetjournal.it
Phase changes associated with the boiling of cryogenic liquids are interesting phenomena.
In the present study, liquid nitrogen, which has applications in microelectronics …