This paper provides a comprehensive review of published literatures concerning the fluid
mechanics and heat transfer mechanisms of liquid drop impact on a heated wall. The review …

Droplet bouncing on surfaces has long been observed in nature and industry, which is
rather intriguing and instructive for related technology development. Recent decades have …

In this paper, an improved thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed for simulating
liquid-vapor phase change, which is aimed at improving an existing thermal LB model for …

Fuel cells and flow batteries are promising technologies to address climate change and air
pollution problems. An understanding of the complex multiscale and multiphysics transport …

In this paper, the pinning and depinning mechanism of the contact line during droplet
evaporation on chemically stripe-patterned surfaces is numerically investigated using a …

A two-dimensional (2-D) double-distribution lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is implemented
to study isothermal drying of a colloidal suspension considering local nanoparticle effects …

In this paper, the boiling heat transfer performance on a type of hydrophilic-hydrophobic
mixed surfaces and the underlying enhancement mechanism are numerically investigated …

In this paper, a two-dimensional hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) method coupled with
the leaky dielectric model was firstly presented to study droplet evaporation on a heated …

In the past few decades, the droplet impact on a heated plate above the Leidenfrost
temperature has attracted immense research interest. The strong hydrophobicity caused by …

In this paper, a numerical investigation of bubble dynamics during nucleate pool boiling is
conducted using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Unlike the perfectly dielectric fluid …