How heterogeneous wettability enhances boiling

Juan Carlos Fernandez Toledano, Joël De Coninck, François Dunlop and Thierry Huillet

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023, vol. 622, issue C

Abstract: For super-heated water on a substrate with hydrophobic patches immersed in a hydrophilic matrix, one can choose the temperature so that micro-bubbles will form, grow and merge on the hydrophobic patches and not on the hydrophilic matrix. Until covering a patch, making a pinned macro-bubble, a bubble has a contact angle π−θ2, where θ2 is the receding contact angle of water on the patch material. This pinned macro-bubble serves as the initial condition of a quasi-static growth process, leading to detachment through the formation of a neck, so long as depinning and dewetting of the hydrophilic matrix was avoided during the growth of the pinned bubble: the bubble contact angle should not exceed π−θ1, where θ1 is the receding contact angle of water on the matrix material. The boiling process may then enter a cycle of macro-bubbles forming and detaching on the patches; the radii of these patches can be optimized for maximizing the heat transfer for a given substrate area.

Keywords: Young–Laplace; Quasi-static; Heterogeneous wettability; Boiling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128847

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