In the past decade, the condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces has been investigated abundantly to achieve dropwise condensation. There is not a specific approach in choosing the size of the roughness of the superhydrophobic surfaces and it was mostly selected arbitrarily to investigate the behavior of condensates on these surfaces. In this research, we are optimizing the size of the roughness of the superhydrophobic surface in order to achieve dropwise condensation. By minimizing the resistances toward the transition of the tails of droplets from the cavities of the roughness to the top of the roughness, the size of the roughness is optimized. It is shown that by decreasing the size of the roughness of the superhydrophobic surface, the resistances toward the transition of the tails of droplets from Wenzel state to Cassie state decrease and consequently dropwise condensation becomes more likely.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500016 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Vandadi, Aref |
| Contributors | Cheng, Jiangtao, Shi, Sheldon, Nie, Xu |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vii, 43 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), Text |
| Rights | Public, Vandadi, Aref, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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