Drop Dynamics and Dropwise Condensation on Textured Surfaces

Sameer Khandekar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,  Kanpur (UP) India. K. Muralidhar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at theIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur (UP) India.

• Introduction.- Intermediate steps in dropwise condensation.- Mechanism of Dropwise Condensation and its Modeling.- Drop Formation at the Atomic Scale.- Spreading of a Single Drop on Sessile and Pendant Surfaces.- Macroscopic Modeling of Dropwise Condensation.- Simulation of Dropwise Condensation in a Parallel Environment.- Dropwise Condensation of Water Vapor (Simulation).- Dropwise Condensation of Bismuth (Simulation).- Surface preparation Techniques.- Coalescence Dynamics of Drops over a Hydrophobic Surface.- Liquid Crystal Thermography of Condensing Drops.- Dropwise Condensation of water vapor .- Instrumentation Issues Encountered During Measurement of Heat Transfer.- Evaporation of a Liquid Drops from a Textured Surface.- Concluding remarks and perspectives.- Future Work.