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Freezing Characteristics of a Water Droplet on a Multiscale Superhydrophobic Surface

Sandeep Hatte
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Karunesh Kant
Ranga Pitchumani
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Résumé

Superhydrophobic surfaces have the potential to retard ice formation owing to their super water-repellant nature arising from high static contact angle and low contact angle hysteresis. Most of the previous studies have focused on patterned surfaces with mono-scaled prismatic structures. In contrast, the freezing behavior on multiscaled rough superhydrophobic surfaces that are of practical significance is relatively little studied. This article presents, for the first time, the freezing dynamics of a water droplet interacting with multiscale fractal superhydrophobic surfaces, which validates well with experimental measurements. It is shown that the dual effects of increased contact angle and poor interfacial conduction due to trapped air cavities within the roughness features of the superhydrophobic surface lead to increasing freezing time with increasing surface hydrophobicity, determined as a function of the fractal surface parameters. A comparison of the freezing dynamics of sessile droplets of identical contact angle on a smooth versus a rough superhydrophobic surface shows that interfacial asperity thermal resistance contributes to over 14% increase in the freeze time. It is further shown that by tailoring the multiscale characteristics, the freeze time may be increased by up to seven-fold compared to freezing on a smooth surface. The application of the numerical model to studying ice formation on several practical superhydrophobic surfaces of a range of metallic materials and fabrication methods is also discussed, which offers guidelines for the design of anti-icing surfaces in practice.
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hal-04170004 , version 1 (25-07-2023)

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Sandeep Hatte, Karunesh Kant, Ranga Pitchumani. Freezing Characteristics of a Water Droplet on a Multiscale Superhydrophobic Surface. Langmuir, 2023, 39 (33), pp.11898-11909. ⟨10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01705⟩. ⟨hal-04170004⟩
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