Influence of wettability due to laser-texturing on critical heat flux in vertical flow boiling

Laser textured titanium surface characterization

“…In addition, this contactless process can be applied to hard-to-reach areas. Laser surface texturing has been used to improve the tribological performance of material interfaces [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. More recently, laser surface texturing has also been applied to enhance adhesion of contact surfaces.…”

Recent Advances of Surface Wettability Effect on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Performance

“…Compared with uncoated microtubule, the HTC of flow boiling on coated microtubule can be increased by up to 61%. Bottini et al (2018) studied the flow boiling characteristics on copper surface treated by femtosecond laser in a vertical rectangular channel with a cross-section size of 12.7 mm×12.7 mm. The contact angle of the treated copper surface was 131.9°.…”