How heterogeneous wettability enhances boiling

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2023.128847MaRDI QIDQ6156462zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan Carlos Fernández-Toledano, Joël De Coninck, François Dunlop, Thierry E. Huillet

Publication date 13 June 2023

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05582

zbMATH Keywords

boilingheterogeneous wettabilityquasi-staticYoung-Laplace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)

Abstract: For super-heated water on a substrate with hydrophobic patches immersed in a hydrophilic matrix, one can choose the temperature so that micro-bubbles will form, grow and merge on the hydrophobic patches and not on the hydrophilic matrix. Until covering a patch, making a pinned macro-bubble, a bubble has a contact angle $pi-het{a}_2$, where $het{a}_2$ is the receding contact angle of water on the patch material. This pinned macro-bubble serves as the initial condition of a quasi-static growth process, `a la Landau, leading to detachment through the formation of a neck, so long as depinning and dewetting of the hydrophilic matrix was avoided during the growth of the pinned bubble: the bubble contact angle should not exceed $pi-het{a}_1$, where $het{a}_1$ is the receding contact angle of water on the matrix material. The boiling process may then enter a cycle of macro-bubbles forming and detaching on the patches; the radii of these patches can be optimized for maximizing the heat transfer for a given substrate area. For this analysis to become quantitative, we revisit the Young-Laplace quasi-static evolution of key physical quantities, such as bubble energy, as functions of bubble growing volume, when gravity is either significative or negligible: this concerns both pinned bubbles on a fixed circular footprint (Dirichlet boundary conditions) and free un-pinned bubbles with a fixed contact angle (Neumann boundary conditions).

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