Paola Grazia Pittoni
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Office
2072 Black Engr.2529 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 500112030
Information
Faculty Senate | Faculty Compensation Committee
Academic Advisor
- Women in Mechanical Engineering (WiME)
- Pi Tau Sigma – The Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
- Iowa State SAE International
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei
- BS, Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Interest Areas
- Wettability
- Drop Triple Line Dynamics at low and high temperatures
- Drop Impact
- Drop Evaporation
- Multi-Phase Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (Heat Transfer, Pressure Drop, Flow Patterns)
Publications
• P G Pittoni, C-H Lin, T-S Yu and S-Y Lin
“On the Uniqueness of the Receding Contact Angle: Effects of Substrate Roughness and Humidity on Evaporation of Water Drops”
Langmuir 30, 9346–9354 (2014)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/la501455d
• P G Pittoni, C-C Chang, T-S Yu, S-Y Lin
“Evaporation of water drops on polymer surfaces: Pinning, depinning and dynamics of the triple line”
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 432, 89–98 (2013)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.04.045
• Lucchini, Carraretto, Phan, P G Pittoni, Colombo
“Comparison between R134a and R1234ze(E) during Flow Boiling in Microfin Tubes”
Fluids, 6 (11), 417 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6110417
• P G Pittoni, Y-C Lin, R-J Wang, T-S Yu, and S-Y Lin
“Bubbles Entrapment for Drops Impinging on Polymer Surfaces: the Roughness Effect”
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 62, 183–191 (2015)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2014.12.015
• P G Pittoni, Y-C Lin, and S-Y Lin
“The impalement of water drops impinging onto hydrophobic/ superhydrophobic graphites surfaces: the role of dynamic pressure, hammer pressure and liquid penetration time”
Applied Surface Science 301, 515–524 (2014)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.02.115
• P G Pittoni, H-K Tsao, Y-L Hung, J-W Huang, and S-Y Lin
“Impingement dynamics of water drops onto four graphite morphologies: from triple line recoil to pinning”
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 417, 256–263 (2014)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2013.11.022
• P G Pittoni, H-K Tsao, and S-Y Lin
“Water drop impingement on graphite substrates with random dilute defects”
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 53, 142-146 (2014)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2013.11.021
• P G Pittoni, R-J Wang, T-S Yu, and S-Y Lin
“Occurrence and formation mechanisms of bubbles entrapped into water drops impinging on graphite”
Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 45, 3062–3068 (2014)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtice.2014.04.021
• P G Pittoni, Y-Y Chang, S-Y Lin
“The effect of interfacial morphology on wetting of graphite by molten silver at high temperature”
Journal of Materials Science 47, 8395–8403 (2012)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-012-6795-2
• P G Pittoni, Y-Y Chang, S-Y Lin
“Interpretation of the peculiar temperature dependence of surface tension for boron trioxide”
Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 43, 852–859 (2012)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtice.2012.05.006
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings, Bulletins, or Reports
• L Colombo, A Lucchini, L Molinaroli, A Niro, T Phan, P G Pittoni
“Flow patterns during flow boiling and convective condensation of R1234ze(e) inside a microfin tube”
5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), New Orleans, LA, USA (2021)
• L Colombo, A Lucchini, A Muzzio, P Pittoni
“Experimental results on flow boiling and convective condensation of R134a in microfin tubes”
5th European Thermal-Sciences Conference, The Netherlands (2008)
• L Colombo, A Lucchini, A Muzzio, P Pittoni
“Flow-boiling of R134a inside a horizontal micro-fin tube
XXV Congresso Nazionale UIT sulla Trasmissione del Calore, Trieste, Italy (2007)
Primary Strategic Research Area
Energy Systems