Effects of surface topography of material on nucleation site density of dropwise condensation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 874-880

  Mu, Chunfeng ^a   Pang, Jingjing ^a   Lu, Qiaoyu ^a   Liu, Tianqing ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dropwise condensation; Fractal dimension; Nucleation sites; Surface topography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONDENSATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NUCLEATION;

DROPWISE CONDENSATION; NUCLEATION SITES;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONDENSATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NUCLEATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 37549024987     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Glicksman L.R., and Hunt A.W. Numerical simulation of dropwise condensation. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 15 (1972) 2251-2269
2. Graham, C., 1969. The limiting heat transfer mechanisms of dropwise condensation. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. Graham C., and Griffith P. Drop size distributions and heat transfer in dropwise condensation. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 16 (1973) 337-346
4. Krischer S., and Grigull U. Microscopic study of dropwise condensation. Wärme-und Stoffübertragung 4 (1971) 48-59
5. Le Fevre E.J., and Rose J.W. An experimental study of heat transfer by dropwise condensation. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 8 (1965) 1117-1133
6. Le Fevre, E.J., Rose, J.W., 1966. A theory of heat transfer by dropwise condensation. In: Proceedings of the International Heat Transfer Conference, vol. 2, Chicago, USA.
7. Liu T.Q., Mu C.F., Sun X.Y., and Xia S.B. Mechanism study on formation of initial condensate droplets. A.I.Ch.E Journal 53 4 (2007) 1050-1055
8. Mandelbrot B.B. The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), Freeman, New York
9. McCormick J.L., and Westwater J.W. Nucleation sites for dropwise condensation. Chemical Engineering Science 20 (1965) 1021-1036
10. Rose J.W. Further aspects of dropwise condensation theory. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 19 (1976) 1363-1370
11. Rose J.W. Dropwise condensation theory and experiment a review. Proceedings Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 216 (2002) 115-128
12. Sarkar N., and Chaudhuri B.B. An efficient approach to estimate fractal dimension of textural images. Pattern Recognition 25 9 (1992) 1035-1041
13. Tanasawa, I., 1974. Paper presented at "Round Table Meeting" Dropwise condensation. In Fifth International Heat Transfer Conference, Tokyo.
14. Tanasawa, I., Ochiiai, J., Utaka, Y., En-Ya, S., (1974). 11th Japanese Heat Transfer Symposium, Japanese, vol. 229, preprint.
15. Wu H.W., and Maa J.R. On the heat transfer in dropwise condensation. Chemical Engineering Journal 12 (1976) 225-231
16. Wu Y.T., Yang C.X., and Yuan X.G. Drop distributions and numerical simulation of dropwise condensation heat transfer. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 44 23 (2001) 4455-4464
17. Yang C.X., Wang L.G., Yuan X.G., and Ma C.F. Dropwise condensation as typical fractal growth process. Journal of Aerospace Power 13 3 (1998) 272-276