Enhancing the boiling heat transfer

The main results obtained on boiling heat transfer enhancement over the past two decades are reviewed. The methods and ways to intensify the boiling heat transfer are traditional: influence on the internal boiling mechanisms; increase of the heat exchange surface; creation of conditions that suppress the least efficient processes during boiling. Today, the methods of influence have become much more selective and precisely tuned. The use of nanofluids and nanomaterials, femtosecond laser irradiation, plasma and ion processing allows obtaining a significant number of new results. (paper)