@article{943839,
      recid = {943839},
      author = {Khandekar, Sameer. and Muralidhar, K.},
      title = {Drop dynamics and dropwise condensation on textured  surfaces /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {This book is an expanded form of the monograph, Dropwise  Condensation on Inclined Textured Surfaces, Springer, 2013,  published earlier by the authors, wherein a mathematical  model for dropwise condensation of pure vapor over inclined  textured surfaces was presented, followed by simulations  and comparison with experiments. The model factored in  several details of the overall quasi-cyclic process but  approximated those at the scale of individual drops. In the  last five years, drop level dynamics over hydrophobic  surfaces have been extensively studied. These results can  now be incorporated in the dropwise condensation model.  Dropwise condensation is an efficient route to heat  transfer and is often encountered in major power generation  applications. Drops are also formed during condensation in  distillation devices that work with diverse fluids ranging  from water to liquid metals. Design of such equipment  requires careful understanding of the condensation cycle,  starting from the birth of nuclei, followed by molecular  clusters, direct growth of droplets, their coalescence, all  the way to instability and fall-off of condensed drops. The  model described here considers these individual steps of  the condensation cycle. Additional discussions include drop  shape determination under static conditions, a fundamental  study of drop spreading in sessile and pendant  configurations, and the details of the drop coalescence  phenomena. These are subsequently incorporated in the  condensation model and their consequences are examined. As  the mathematical model is spread over multiple scales of  length and time, a parallelization approach to simulation  is presented. Special topics include three-phase contact  line modeling, surface preparation techniques, fundamentals  of evaporation and evaporation rates of a single liquid  drop, and measurement of heat transfer coefficient during  large-scale condensation of water vapor. We hope that this  significantly expanded text meets the expectations of  design engineers, analysts, and researchers working in  areas related to phase-change phenomena and heat transfer.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/943839},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48461-3,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48},
}