Optical evaluation of the effect of curvature and apparent contact angle in droplet condensate removal

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 729-738

  Wang, Ying Xin ^a   Zheng, Ling ^a   Plawsky, Joel L ^a   Wayner Jr, Peter C ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensation; Image processing; Interferometry; Microscale; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CONTACT ANGLE; ETHANOL; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CURVATURE; OPTICAL EVALUATION;

DROP BREAKUP;

CONDENSATION; DROPLET; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0036679457     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1466460     Document Type: Article

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