Using Anisotropic Micro-Scale Topography to Manipulate the Wettability of Aluminum and Reduce the Retention of Water

A.D. Sommers , A.M. Jacobi
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1
2007
Wetting phenomena on micro-grooved aluminum surfaces and modeling of the critical droplet size

A.D. Sommers , A.M. Jacobi
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 328 ( 2) 402 -411

48
2008
Condensate drainage performance of a plain fin-and-tube heat exchanger constructed from anisotropic micro-grooved fins

A.D. Sommers , R. Yu , N.C. Okamoto , K. Upadhyayula
International Journal of Refrigeration-revue Internationale Du Froid 35 ( 6) 1766 -1778

18
2012
Effect of a micro-grooved fin surface design on the air-side thermal-hydraulic performance of a plain fin-and-tube heat exchanger

R. Yu , A.D. Sommers , N.C. Okamoto
International Journal of Refrigeration-revue Internationale Du Froid 36 ( 3) 1078 -1089

6
2013
Air-side heat transfer enhancement of a refrigerator evaporator using vortex generation

A.D. Sommers , A.M. Jacobi
International Journal of Refrigeration-revue Internationale Du Froid 28 ( 7) 1006 -1017

52
2005
Creating micro-scale surface topology to achieve anisotropic wettability on an aluminum surface

Andrew D Sommers , Anthony M Jacobi
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 16 ( 8) 1571 -1578

115
2006
Patterning wettability for open-surface fluidic manipulation: fundamentals and applications

Pallab Sinha Mahapatra , Ranjan Ganguly , Aritra Ghosh , Souvick Chatterjee
Chemical Reviews 122 ( 22) 16752 -16801

2
2022
Evaporator frosting in refrigerating appliances: Fundamentals and applications

Christian JL Hermes , Joel Boeng , Diogo L da Silva , Fernando T Knabben
Energies 14 ( 18) 5991

4
2021
COLL 23-Using anisotropic microscale topography to reduce the retention of water on aluminum

Andrew D Sommers , Anthony M Jacobi
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 234

2007
Surveying the Directional Transport of Water Droplets upon Impact on Metallic Topographic Gradients

Kirill Misiiuk , Geoff R Willmott , Richard J Blaikie , Andrew D Sommers
ACS applied materials & interfaces 16 ( 18) 24094 -24107

2024
A semi-empirical model for predicting frost accretion on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces

Christian JL Hermes , Andrew D Sommers , Colton W Gebhart , Valter S Nascimento Jr
international journal of refrigeration 87 164 -171

33
2018
6
2019
Using patterned surface wettability to enhance air-side heat transfer through frozen water droplet vortex generators–Part II: CFD simulation results

Andrew E Koopman , Andrew D Sommers , Christian JL Hermes
International Journal of Refrigeration 131 737 -745

3
2021
Hydrocarbon Condensation Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Silica Nanosprings and Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS)

Adam Y Vuth , Andrew R Dillman , Daniel F Conway , Joseph P Chamberlin
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 87677 V010T11A017 -V010T11A017

2023
Facilitating Water Droplet Removal From Wind Turbine Blades Using Surface Wettability Gradients

Jacob M Bertelsen , Andrew D Sommers
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 87660 V009T10A037 -V009T10A037

2023
THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TIME-SCALING OF FROST GROWTH AND DENSIFICATION ON FLAT SURFACES

Christian JL Hermes , Andrew D Sommers
ASTFE Digital Library

2019
CREATING VORTEX GENERATORS USING PREFERENTIAL SURFACE WETTABILITY PATTERNING FOR AIR-SIDE HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT

Andrew E Koopman , Christian JL Hermes , Andrew D Sommers
ASTFE Digital Library

2019