Enhanced nucleate pool boiling on copper-diamond textured surfaces

This work describes an experimental investigation of enhanced nucleate pool boiling of water on textured surfaces. The textured surfaces are formed atop thin Copper-Diamond composite layers deposited by the Cold Spray manufacturing technique. The resulting surface is multi-scale, mildly hydrophobic and supports liquid wicking. Pool boiling experiments are performed on coated and non-coated surfaces and performance improvements are quantified in …