期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 1853-1860出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c17625
关键词
droplet; wicking; thin-film evaporation; nanochannel; pores; heated surface; spray cooling
资金
- Office of Naval Research [N000141812357]
- NSF [NNCI-2025233]
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [N000141812357] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
The experimental study explored droplet wicking and evaporation in porous nanochannels on a heated surface, showing the potential of the fabricated geometry to passively dissipate high heat fluxes for spray cooling applications.
Droplet wicking and evaporation in porous nanochannels is experimentally studied on a heated surface at temperatures ranging from 35 to 90 degrees C. The fabricated geometry consists of cross-connected nanochannels of height 728 nm with micropores of diameter 2 mu m present at every channel intersection; the pores allow water from a droplet placed on the top surface to wick into the channels. Droplet volume is also varied, and a total of 16 experimental cases are conducted. Wicking characteristics such as wicked distance, capillary pressure, viscous resistance, and propagation coefficients are obtained at all surface temperatures. Evaporation flux from the nanochannels/micropores is estimated from the droplet experiments but is also independently confirmed via a new set of experiments where water is continuously fed to the sample through a microtube so that it matches the evaporation rate. Heat flux as high as similar to 294 W/cm(2) is achieved from channels and pores. The experimental findings are applied to evaluate the use of porous nanochannel geometry in spray cooling application and is found to be capable of passively dissipating high heat fluxes upto similar to 77 W/cm(2) at temperatures below nucleation, thus highlighting the thermal management potential of the fabricated geometry.
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