Micro/nanostructuring of metal additively manufactured aluminum alloy for enhanced pool boiling of dielectric fluids

LYX Lum, P Liu, JY Ho - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Surface micro/nanotextures have the potential to increase bubble nucleation and promote
capillary liquid wicking to enhance pool boiling heat transfer significantly. Despite past …

Electric field enhancement of pool boiling of dielectric fluids on pillar-structured surfaces: A lattice Boltzmann study

W Li, Q Li, H Chang, Y Yu, S Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, by using a phase-change lattice Boltzmann (LB) model coupled with an
electric field model, we numerically investigate the performance and enhancement …

Effects of coupling of groove microstructure and mixed wettability on flow boiling heat transfer enhancement of R134a in microchannels

W Zhang, L Yue, C Qi, Y Wang, H Wang… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mixing of surface microstructure and wettability is one of the future development trends.
Their combination always affects the bubble motion and heat transfer coefficient under pool …

Composite microstructured surface with micro-cavities and micro-ditches on micro-pin-fins for enhancing pool boiling heat transfer

X Sun, Q Li, B Liu, H Chang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel composite microstructured surface with micro-cavities and micro-
ditches on micro-pin-fins was designed to enhance pool boiling heat transfer. To reveal the …

Advances in the study of bubbles in boiling and their application to electrolytic hydrogen production

H Chu, C Yang, D Wang, W Deng, N Xu - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2025 - Elsevier
Boiling heat transfer is an efficient and green heat transfer method that is widely used in
industrial production. Single bubble pool boiling is a specific case of pool boiling, which …

Electrohydrodynamic enhancement of pool boiling heat transfer on micro-column surfaces: Advantages and disadvantages

B Liu, H Chang, Q Li, X Sun, Y Qiu - International Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
The influences of electrohydrodynamics on enhanced boiling heat transfer performance
under different sizes of micro-columns were explored. The results indicate that the …

Enhanced boiling heat transfer on structured surfaces with linear and staggered arrangements of hydrophilic and hydrophobic micro-pillars

C Luo, T Tagawa - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores pool boiling performance of three-dimensional structured surfaces
featuring square micro-pillars. The investigation employs the hybrid cascaded lattice …

Effect of heating wires with electric potential on pool-boiling heat transfer under an electric field

C Luo, T Tagawa - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the influence of heating wires with electric potential on a pool-
boiling system under an electric field. We employed a numerical method that combines the …

Subcooled pool boiling heat transfer enhancement on hierarchically biomimetic laser-structured surfaces with gradient pores

ER Shi, Q Wang, P Yi, Q Peng, C Jiang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, an experimental study was conducted to investigate the pool boiling heat
transfer characteristics of hierarchically micro/nano-structured surfaces with biomimetic …

A correlation for predicting the critical heat flux under an electric field in pool boiling

P Yu, Q Li, B Liu, H Chang, Q Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Enhancing heat dissipation and efficiently monitoring the critical temperature point have
become major concerns due to the increasing power consumption of thermal equipment. In …