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Boiling is a remarkably efficient heat transfer method and is commonly used in daily life and industrial applications. Changing the physical and chemical structure of hot surface in some methods as making a porosity in a manner of enhancing boiling process is an interesting topic in recent decay. In this paper, porous metal micro/nano structural surfaces is produced in order to augmentation of boiling heat transfer on copper surface by the one- and two-stage electrodeposition method. The pictures in micro and nanoscale are captured to identification of structure and surface characteristics as porosity and capillarity are estimated. Next, the effects of structures in enhancing the pool boiling are measured experimentally. So then, boiling heat transfer profiles that demonstrate heat flux versus wall superheat, are derived for water fluid. Pool boiling curves of enhanced surfaces is compared with polished surface and results of other researchers to determine the efficiency improvement. Furthermore, comparison the effect of electrodeposition process time on obtained structures shows higher porosity, capillary and strength of structure with lower process time (30 sec) lead to further enhancement of pool boiling.

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Due to increasing the heat transfer surface area and high providing capillary pressure with high permeability, porous structures play a key role in improving the performance of two phase heat transfer devices such as heat pipes. New porous structures (bi-porous structures), have two distinct size distribution of pores of which the small pores provide the capillary pressure required for delivering liquid to the surface and large pores help vapor escape from the surface through increasing its permeability. The main goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the evaporator section of heat pipes and comparison between the performances of two sample biporous structures. Towards this goal first the Kovalev modeling technique is applied to determine the possibility of each phase’s existence in pores of different sizes throughout the computational domain. One dimensional heat transfer in a bi-porous wick is investigated. Inside the domain the conservation equations are solved for each phase and the results such as heat flux versus wall superheat are presented. Thermo-physical properties of the fluid and the matrix like the fluid properties, phase saturation and permeability and the conduction heat transfer coefficient are calculated from the geometry of the matrix and experimental relationships.