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We study the role of surface topology, surface chemistry, and wall superheat temperature on the onset of boiling, bubble nucleation and growth, and the possible formation of an insulating vapour film by means of large-scale MD simulations.…
Nanoporous structures including single nanopores and nanoporous membranes have been utilized as a platform to study fundamental liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer (PCHT) processes as well as a promising candidate for high flux heat…
We study the effect of cavity collapse in non-ideal explosives as a means of controlling their sensitivity. The aim is to understand the origin of localised temperature peaks (hot spots) which play a key role at the early stages of…
It is well established that near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) can exceed Planck's blackbody limit1 by orders of magnitude owing to the tunneling of evanescent electromagnetic frustrated and surface modes2-4, as has been…
The transition from nucleate to film boiling on micro/nano textured surfaces is of crucial importance in a number of practical applications, where it needs to be avoided to enable safe and efficient heat transfer. Previous studies have…
Micro-structured surfaces influence nucleation characteristics and bubble dynamics besides increasing the heat transfer surface area, thus enabling efficient nucleate boiling heat transfer. Modeling the pool boiling heat transfer…
We study heat transfer from a heated nanoparticle into surrounding fluid, using molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the fluid next to the nanoparticle can be heated well above its boiling point without a phase change. Under…
Flow boiling in microchannel heat sinks is an efficient way to dissipate high heat flux by utilizing the large surface-to-volume ratio and high latent heat. Previous studies of boiling heat transfer in microchannels mainly consider the…
Twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials exhibit many exotic physical phenomena. Manipulating the twist angle between the two layers enables fine control of the physical structure, resulting in development of many novel physics, such as…
A hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann phase-change model was performed to simulate the pool boiling above a smooth horizontal heater. The effects of homogenous and heterogeneous wettability on entire boiling curves from the onset of nucleate…
A new approach that is a combination of classical thermodynamics and macroscopic kinetics is offered for studying the nucleation kinetics in condensed binary solutions. The theory covers the separation of liquid and solid solutions…
Bubble nucleation in water induced by boiling, gas supersaturation or cavitation usually originates from pre-existing gas cavities trapped into solid defects. Even though the destabilization of such gas pockets, called nuclei, has been…
In recent years, the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method has been widely employed to simulate boiling phenomena [A. M\'arkus and G. H\'azi, Phys. Rev. E 83, 046705 (2011); Biferale et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104502 (2012); Li et al., Phys.…
Vertical natural convection (VC), often cannot meet the high heat transfer demands due to the inherent misalignment of the direction of buoyancy (vertical) with the direction of the heat transfer (horizontal). Here we applied a novel…
This paper studies the effects of mixed convection fluid motion and heat transmission of Al2O3-Water nanofluid in a square enclosure including two heated obstacles, with temperature and nanoparticle concentration being determined by the…
We study turbulent natural convection in enclosures with conjugate heat transfer. The simplest way to increase the heat transfer in this flow is through rough surfaces. In numerical simulations often the constant temperature is assigned at…
Despite its relevance in biology and engineering, the molecular mechanism driving cavitation in water remains unknown. Using computer simulations, we investigate the structure and dynamics of vapor bubbles emerging from metastable water at…
Heath-bath effects in the dynamics of atom + cavity system are studied. The temperature effects are explored using thermofield dynamics formalism. It is found that the dynamics of the system is sensitive to small changes in the temperature…