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Heat Transfer Enhancement on Multilayer Wire Mesh Coatings and Wire Mesh Coatings Combined with Other Surface Modifications—A Review

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The paper presents an overview of experimental studies on the influence of mesh coatings of heat-releasing elements on heat transfer enhancement under various conditions: pool boiling of liquid, evaporation and boiling in thin horizontal layers of liquid, in falling films of liquid, and in flows in channels. Studies on the topic are discussed in detail, from key works with mesh coatings to latter-day research using gradient mesh coatings, combinations of mesh coating with other kinds of modifications, or application of additive manufacturing (3D printing). Models that have been developed specifically for mesh coatings for calculation of the heat transfer coefficient and critical heat flux and are available in the literature are presented. The heat transfer intensification data obtained for the considered mesh coatings are compared with data for up-to-date highly efficient micro—nano-structured surfaces.

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Notes

  1. Except for the achieved sevenfold enhancement at boiling in thin layers of water in [6], but only at low heat fluxes.

  2. That is, only via change in the structure of the heat-transfer surface.

  3. First of all, we mean studies with mesh coatings tightly adjacent to a heat-releasing wall, numerous studies on the application of metallic meshes for making wicks of heat pipes almost unaffected.

  4. Hereinafter, besides its direct meaning, mesh is used as the mesh number, i.e., the number of openings per linear inch of mesh.

  5. Distance between the wires.

  6. It was decided to leave the works using surface roughening in addition to mesh coatings [6, 32] in this paragraph without transferring them to paragraph 2.2, where more complicated combined coatings are discussed.

  7. As it was previously done by the authors of [29].

  8. In this case, the aperture will be 1 mm, which coincides with the bubble departure diameter for water boiling.

  9. It should be understood that the record heat transfer results obtained on prototypes of enhancing surfaces [48, 49, etc.] still need further verification and validation, just as highly effective combined surfaces need testing for stability of thermophysical and chemical properties and adaptation for industrial use.

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Volodin, O.A., Pavlenko, A.N. & Pecherkin, N.I. Heat Transfer Enhancement on Multilayer Wire Mesh Coatings and Wire Mesh Coatings Combined with Other Surface Modifications—A Review. J. Engin. Thermophys. 30, 563–596 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1810232821040020

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