Nanoengineering-Enhanced Capillary Cooling Achieves Sustained Thermal Protection for Ultra-High Heat Flux and Temperature

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 50 vom: 15. Dez., Seite e2312765
1. Verfasser: Xu, Ruina (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zhou, Jimin, Liao, Zhiyuan, Li, Xiaoyang, Hu, Haowei, Hu, Kehui, Jiang, Peixue
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article evaporation‐driven capillary flow extreme thermal conditions nanoengineering porous media sustained thermal protection
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:© 2024 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
Extreme thermal conditions with heat flux densities exceeding 1 MW m-2 or temperatures reaching up to 1000 °C are prevalent in various situations. However, thermal protection ability depends on specialized materials or is currently limited with existing cooling schemes. Herein, an innovative cooling scheme that relies on evaporation-driven capillary flow, enhanced by nanoengineering-designed porous structures with common materials, is proposed. Experimentally-obtained capillary flow cooling curve identifies critical heat flux corresponding to evaporation-driven flow stage, where coolants cool the surface and subsequent vapor impedes heat transfer from thermal boundaries. Nanoengineering provides opportunities for enhanced capillary flow, which proves to endow bronze, TC4 (titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V), and Al2O3 with thermal protection ability 50-180% higher than that without nanoengineering-designed. The authors' scheme achieves critical heat flux up to 2.0-3.1 MW m-2 and performs thermal dissipation capacity almost twice higher than inherent latent heat of coolant. Further, in a supersonic wind tunnel with total temperature reaching up to 1792 K, this scheme effectively protects surfaces by cooling them to surface temperatures below 500 K. Nanoengineering-enhanced capillary cooling gives access to the application of common materials for high-temperature and high-heat-flux environments and paves the way for development of lightweight, long-lasting, and large-scale solutions for thermal protection
Beschreibung:Date Revised 12.12.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202312765