Critical heat flux enhancement in pool boiling through increased rewetting on nanopillar array surfaces
Abstract Boiling is a key heat transfer process for a variety of power generation and thermal management technologies. We show that nanopillar arrays fabricated on a substrate enhance both the critical heat flux (CHF) and the critical temperature at CHF of the substrate and thus, effectively increas...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-03-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22693-z |