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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Main Authors: Thien-Binh Nguyen, Dongdong Liu, Md Imrul Kayes, Baomin Wang, Nabeel Rashin, Paul W. Leu, Tuan Tran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22693-z