Frost formation on a bionic super-hydrophobic surface under natural convection conditions

Heat Transfer - Asian Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 412-420

  Gou, Yunjun ^a   Liu, Zhongliang ^b   Wang, Jieteng ^b   Cheng, Shuiyuan ^b  

^a TANGSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bionic super hydrophobic surface; Contact angle; Frost deposition; Lotus effect; Nucleation barrier

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIONICS; CONTACT ANGLE; COPPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FREEZING; HEAT CONVECTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUCLEATION; SOLIDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

AIR TEMPERATURES; BINARY STRUCTURES; BIONIC SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACE; CHRYSANTHEMUM ,; COLD PLATES; COPPER SURFACES; FREEZING PROCESSES; FROST CRYSTALS; FROST DEPOSITION; FROST FORMATIONS; FROST GROWTHS; FROST LAYERS; LOTUS EFFECT; LOTUS LEAF; MICRO BUMPS; NUCLEATION BARRIER; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; ROLL ANGLES; THEORETICAL ANALYSES; WATER DROPLETS;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 58049196523     PISSN: 10992871     EISSN: 15231496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/htj.20216     Document Type: Article

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