Development of a Technology for Creating Structured Capillary-Porous Coatings by Means of 3D Printing for Intensification of Heat Transfer during Boiling

Application of the method of layer-by-layer selective laser sintering of a metal powder for depositing capillary-porous coatings with a prescribed porosity onto heat-releasing surfaces is considered. Implementation of this method in experimental investigations of the boiling process on modified surfaces allows broad-range variations of the main parameters of microstructured capillary-porous coatings and other three-dimensional structures: material, porosity, amplitude (height), thickness of the residual layer and wavelength of capillary-porous coatings, and size and shape of three-dimensional ordered microtextures. It is demonstrated that the use of this technology can increase the heat transfer coefficient the case of boiling on the surface with a capillary-porous coating by several times as compared to the uncoated surface.