Nucleate boiling heat transfer is strongly influenced by surface wettability as characterized the Young's contact angle, [Formula: see text]. The angle usually obtained from measurements on sessile droplets horizontal test surfaces, but in case of water at high temperatures and pressures, text] values droplet experiments appear to be typically 30°–50° higher than needed explain bubble departure...

Industrial demands for more compact heat exchangers are a motivation to find new technology features. Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) is introduced as a promising phenomenon for heat transfer enhancement mechanisms. Similar to any new technology, EHD has not been understood completely yet and requires more fundamental studies. In boiling phase change phenomena, nucleation is the dominant mechanism i...

During the last half of the twentieth century, significant advances have been made in developing an understanding of phase change heat transfer (e.g., boiling and condensation). Further advances in phase change heat transfer will continue to take place motivated by new technologies such as microelectronics, thermal management in space, advanced terrestrial and space power systems and processing...

In this paper we consider a model for pool-boiling systems known from the literature. This model involves only the temperature distribution within the heater and models the heat exchange with the boiling medium via a nonlinear boundary condition imposed on the fluid-heater interface. The model allows multiple homogeneous (i.e. spatially constant) and multiple heterogeneous steady-state solution...

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were employed to investigate the effect of wettability (via contact angle variation) on nanoscale pool boiling heat transfer of a liquid argon thin film on a horizontal copper substrate topped with cubic nano-pillars. The liquid-solid potential was incrementally altered in order to vary the contact angle between hydrophilic (θ~63°) and super hydrophobic (θ~15...

The interfacial area transport equation for a subcooled boiling flow is developed with a mechanistic model for the wall boiling source term. It includes the bubble lift-off diameter model and the lift-off frequency reduction factor model. Those models take into account a bubble’s sliding on the heated wall after a departure from the nucleate site and the coalescences of sliding bubbles. To impl...