Ana S. Moita

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of the literature on spray-wall impact relevant to IC engines is presented, in an attempt to address the rationale of describing spraywall interactions based on the knowledge of single droplet impacts.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study aimed at characterizing the mechanisms of disintegration which occur when individual water and fuel droplets impact onto heated surfaces is presented. But the results are limited to a simplified flow configuration and make use of high-speed visualization together with image processing techniques to characterize the morphology of the impact and quantify the outcome of secondary atomization in terms of droplet size and number.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the pool boiling heat transfer over micro-structured surfaces is presented, where the surfaces are made from silicon chips, in the context of pool boiling heating transfer enhancement of immersion liquid cooling schemes for electronic components.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed description of the heat transfer and bubble dynamics processes occurring for the boiling of water on surfaces with extreme wetting regimes, namely hydrophilicity and superhydrophobicity, is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient, non-toxic and low-cost method to fabricate hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces on aluminum alloy with a water contact angle of 155° and a sliding angle of 5° was reported.