Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 399, Issue -, Pages 480-490Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.12.120
Keywords
Nanosecond laser; Surface texturing; Non-uniform wettability; Microcavities; Nucleation criteria; Enhanced boiling heat transfer
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- Slovenian Research Agency [P2-0223, P2-0392]
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Microstructured uniformly and non-uniformly wettable surfaces were created on 25-mu m-thin stainless steel foils by laser texturing using a marking nanosecond Nd:YAG laser (lambda = 1064 nm) and utilizing various laser fluences and scan line separations. High-speed photography and high-speed IR thermography were used to investigate nucleate boiling heat transfer on the microstructured surfaces. The most pronounced results were obtained on a surface with non-uniform microstructure and non-uniform wettability. The obtained results show up to a 110% higher heat transfer coefficients and 20-40 times higher nucleation site densities compared to the untextured surface. We show that the number of active nucleation sites is significantly increased in the vicinity of microcavities that appeared in areas with the smallest (10 mu m) scan line separation. Furthermore, this confirms the predictions of nucleation criteria and proves that straightforward, cost-effective nanosecond laser texturing allows the production of cavities with diameters of up to a few micrometers and surfaces with non-uniform wettability. Additionally, this opens up important possibilities for a more deterministic control over the complex boiling process. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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