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Condensation surface modification was an important research direction to realize droprise condensation and erhance heat transfer. In order to explore the condensation process and mechanism of droplets on the hydrophobic surface, the condensation process of droplets on the natural Donghu lotus leaves with tilt angle of 30°,60° and 90° were studied. The results show that the tilt angle had a significant effect on the droplets condensation behavior on Donghu lotus leaves hydrophobic surface. Increasing the tilt angle would short the detachment time of condensate droplets. The growth rate of droplets increased with the increase of hydrophobic surface tilt angle. And the condensation droplets diameter also decreased with the increase of incl ination angle.

Droplets evaporation exists widely in industrial manufacturing and engineering applications. Optical visualization system was used to investigate the evaporation process of deionized water droplets on fresh taro leaves with different tilt angles. The evaporation time and mode of droplets were experimental studied at different tilt angles. The results show that the time for the droplet to completely evaporate decreased as the surface tilt angle increases. During the first half of droplet evaporation process on the slant hydrophobic surface, the evaporation modes were different between the two sides of the droplet. When the droplet on an inclined hydrophobic surface evaporated to a certain volume or a certain contact angle, its subsequent evaporation behavior was similar to that of a droplet on a non-tilted hydrophobic surface.