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  1. Progress in Understanding of Evaporation of Droplets: Fundamentals and Applications

    Article • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, October 2025, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  2. Inverse Phase Transition in Droplet Clusters Levitating over the Locally Heated Water Layer

    Article • Langmuir, August 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  3. Absorption of collimated incident radiation in a semitransparent strongly scattering medium: Computational analysis and explanation of red algae blooming in snow

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, July 2024, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  4. Inversion of Stabilized Large Droplet Clusters

    Article • Langmuir, April 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  5. A new method for precise optical measurements of the sub-micron height of levitation of droplet clusters

    Article • Particuology, April 2024, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  6. Effects of asymmetric cooling and surface wettability on the orientation of the freezing tip

    Article • Surface Innovations, February 2024, Emerald

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  7. Experimental study of the effect of water salinity on droplet clusters levitating over a water layer

    Article • Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2024, Tsinghua University Press

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  8. Apple-like Shape of Freezing Paraffin Wax Droplets and Its Origin

    Article • Materials, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  9. Apple-Like Shape of Freezing Paraffin Wax Droplets and its Origin

    Article • July 2023, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  10. Stabilization of levitating clusters containing saltwater droplets

    Article • International Journal of Thermal Sciences, June 2023, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  11. Solar heating of ice-covered lake and ice melting

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, January 2023, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  12. Fluorescence profiles of water droplets in stable levitating droplet clusters

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  13. Self-stabilization of droplet clusters levitating over heated salt water

    Article • International Journal of Thermal Sciences, December 2022, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  14. Thermal conditions for the formation of self-assembled cluster of droplets over the water surface and diversity of levitating droplet clusters

    Article • Heat and Mass Transfer, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  15. Branched droplet clusters and the Kramers theorem

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  16. Self-stabilization of levitating droplet clusters: A new idea and its experimental confirmation

    Article • February 2022, Research Square

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  17. Oscillatory Reversible Osmotic Growth of Sessile Saline Droplets on a Floating Polydimethylsiloxane Membrane

    Article • Fluids, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  18. Osmotic evolution of composite liquid marbles

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, June 2021, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  19. Oscillatory Reversible Osmotic Growth of Sessile Saline Droplets on the Floating Polydimethylsiloxane Membrane

    Article • May 2021, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  20. Survival of Virus Particles in Water Droplets: Hydrophobic Forces and Landauer’s Principle

    Article • Entropy, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  21. Interaction of a Low-Power Laser Radiation with Nanoparticles Formed over the Copper Melt in Rarefied Argon Atmosphere

    Article • Thermo, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  22. Stable cluster of identical water droplets formed under the infrared irradiation: Experimental study and theoretical modeling

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, November 2020, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  23. Modeling Evaporation of Water Droplets as Applied to Survival of Airborne Viruses

    Article • Atmosphere, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  24. Effect of thermal properties of a substrate on formation of self-arranged surface structures on evaporated polymer films

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, September 2020, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  25. Clustering and self-organization in small-scale natural and artificial systems

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, February 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  26. Symmetry of small clusters of levitating water droplets

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  27. Droplet clusters: nature-inspired biological reactors and aerosols

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, June 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  28. Characterization of Self-Assembled 2D Patterns with Voronoi Entropy

    Article • Entropy, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  29. Optical properties of oakwood in the near-infrared range of semi-transparency

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  30. The Effect of Gold Nanorods Clustering on Near-Infrared Radiation Absorption

    Article • Applied Sciences, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  31. Abnormally strong decrease in reflectance of molten copper due to possible generation of levitating sub-micron melt droplets

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, October 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  32. Expanding the temperature range for generation of droplet clusters over the locally heated water surface

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, October 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  33. Self-generated clouds of micron-sized particles as a promising way of a Solar Probe shielding from intense thermal radiation of the Sun

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, October 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  34. A generalized analytical model for radiative transfer in vacuum thermal insulation of space vehicles

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, August 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  35. Kinetics of high-temperature thermal treatment of boehmite-based alumina in vacuum to produce pure alumina

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, July 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  36. Self-assembled levitating clusters of water droplets: pattern-formation and stability

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  37. Simple methods for identification of radiative properties of highly-porous ceria ceramics in the range of semi-transparency

    Article • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, May 2017, Emerald

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  38. Steam explosion in nuclear reactors: Droplets of molten steel vs core melt droplets

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, April 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  39. Identification of radiative heat transfer parameters in multilayer thermal insulation of spacecraft

    Article • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, March 2017, Emerald

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  40. Generation of levitating droplet clusters above the locally heated water surface: A thermal analysis of modified installation

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2017, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  41. Near-infrared optical properties of a porous alumina ceramics produced by hydrothermal oxidation of aluminum

    Article • Infrared Physics & Technology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  42. Professor Oleg M. Alifanov on his 75th birthday

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, June 2016, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  43. A new method to retrieve spectral absorption coefficient of highly-scattering and weakly-absorbing materials

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, March 2016, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  44. The use of infrared irradiation to stabilize levitating clusters of water droplets

    Article • Infrared Physics & Technology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  45. Radiative heat transfer from supersonic flow with suspended particles to a blunt body

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, February 2016, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  46. Effect of infrared irradiation on the suppression of the condensation growth of water droplets in a levitating droplet cluster

    Article • JETP Letters, October 2015, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  47. Modeling of repeating freezing of biological tissues and analysis of possible microwave monitoring of local regions of thawing

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, October 2015, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  48. Radiative heating of superficial human tissues with the use of water-filtered infrared-A radiation: A computational modeling

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, June 2015, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  49. The use of infrared self-emission measurements to retrieve surface temperature of levitating water droplets

    Article • Infrared Physics & Technology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  50. Effects of short-pulsed laser radiation on transient heating of superficial human tissues

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, November 2014, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  51. Spectroscopic diagnostics of morphological changes arising in thermal processing of polypropylene

    Article • Applied Optics, April 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  52. RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN VACUUM THERMAL INSULATION OF SPACE VEHICLES

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2014, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  53. Plasmonic “pump–probe” method to study semi-transparent nanofluids

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  54. Determination of Optical Constants of Ceria By Combined Analytical and Experimental Approaches

    Article • JOM, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  55. Visible and near-infrared optical properties of ceria ceramics

    Article • Infrared Physics & Technology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  56. SIMPLIFIED APPROACHES TO RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS IN LASER-INDUCED HYPERTHERMIA OF SUPERFICIAL TUMORS

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2013, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  57. THERMAL RADIATION PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY POROUS CELLULAR FOAMS

    Article • Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media An International Journal, January 2013, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  58. A Simplified Model of Laser Hyperthermia of Superficial Tumors Including Variation of Human Tissue Optical Properties With Thermal Damage

    Article • November 2012, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  59. Indirect heating strategy for laser induced hyperthermia: An advanced thermal model

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, August 2012, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  60. Efficiency of particle acceleration, heating, and melting in high-enthalpy plasma jets

    Article • High Temperature, April 2012, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  61. COMBINED TWO-FLUX APPROXIMATION AND MONTE CARLO MODEL FOR IDENTIFICATION OF RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY SCATTERING DISPERSED MATERIALS

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2012, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  62. LASER INDUCED HYPERTHERMIA OF SUPERFICIAL TUMORS: A TRANSIENT THERMAL MODEL FOR INDIRECT HEATING STRATEGY

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2012, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  63. THE USE OF TRANSPORT APPROXIMATION AND DIFFUSION-BASED MODELS IN RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2012, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  64. A combined transient thermal model for laser hyperthermia of tumors with embedded gold nanoshells

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, December 2011, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  65. Approximate analytical solution to normal emittance of semi-transparent layer of an absorbing, scattering, and refracting medium

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, August 2011, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  66. High Temperature Infrared Properties of YSZ Electrolyte Ceramics for SOFCs: Experimental Determination and Theoretical Modeling

    Article • Journal of the American Ceramic Society, June 2011, Wiley

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  67. Attenuation of solar radiation by a water mist from the ultraviolet to the infrared range

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, May 2011, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  68. An effect of “scattering by absorption” observed in near-infrared properties of nanoporous silica

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, April 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  69. A Combined P1 and Monte Carlo Model for Radiative Transfer in Multi-Dimensional Anisotropically Scattering Media

    Article • January 2010, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  70. An effect of turbulent clustering on scattering of microwave radiation by small particles in the atmosphere

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, January 2010, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  71. Thermal Radiation From the Zone of Melt-Water Interaction: Computational Model and Some Numerical Results

    Article • January 2010, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  72. An Extension of the Large-Cell Radiation Model for the Case of Semitransparent Nonisothermal Particles

    Article • Journal of Heat Transfer, November 2009, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  73. The effect of clustering of particles on Rayleigh scattering of radiation in a turbulent flow

    Article • High Temperature, August 2009, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  74. Analysis of the effect of turbulence on thermal radiation transfer in a nonscattering medium

    Article • High Temperature, June 2009, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  75. An ablation model for the thermal decomposition of porous zinc oxide layer heated by concentrated solar radiation

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, May 2009, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  76. Atomization of superheated water: Results from experimental studies

    Article • Thermal Engineering, March 2009, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  77. A model for solid bubbles formation in melt–coolant interaction

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, February 2009, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  78. An Extension of the Large-Cell Radiation Model for the Case of Semi-Transparent Nonisothermal Particles

    Article • January 2009, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  79. Approximate model for break-up of solidifying melt particles due to thermal stresses in surface crust layer

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2009, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  80. THERMAL RADIATION MODELING IN NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MELT-COOLANT INTERACTION

    Article • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal, January 2009, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  81. Academician Alexander Ivanovich Leontiev on his 80th birthday

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, December 2008, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  82. An estimate of stability of large solidifying droplets in fuel–coolant interaction

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, September 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  83. In-vessel corium catcher of a nuclear reactor

    Article • Nuclear Engineering and Design, September 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  84. Large-cell model of radiation heat transfer in multiphase flows typical for fuel–coolant interaction

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, August 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  85. Near-infrared radiative properties of porous zirconia ceramics

    Article • Infrared Physics & Technology, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Herve Thierry Kamdem Tagne, Leonid Dombrovsky

  86. Professor John R. Howell on his 70th birthday

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, July 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  87. Transient temperature and thermal stress profiles in semi-transparent particles under high-flux irradiation

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, June 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  88. Infrared radiative properties of polymer coatings containing hollow microspheres

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, April 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  89. A diffusion-based approximate model for radiation heat transfer in a solar thermochemical reactor

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, February 2007, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  90. Calculations of heat flowrates to the VVER-440 reactor vessel during interaction of corium melt with the reactor vessel

    Article • Thermal Engineering, April 2006, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  91. Modified two-flux approximation for identification of radiative properties of absorbing and scattering media from directional-hemispherical measurements

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, January 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  92. Use of Mie theory to analyze experimental data to identify infrared properties of fused quartz containing bubbles

    Article • Applied Optics, November 2005, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  93. Modeling of thermal radiation of polymer coating containing hollow microspheres

    Article • High Temperature, March 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  94. Absorption of thermal radiation in large semi-transparent particles at arbitrary illumination of the polydisperse system

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, December 2004, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  95. Nonuniform absorption of thermal radiation in semitransparent spherical particles under conditions of arbitrary illumination of a disperse system

    Article • High Temperature, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  96. Absorption of external thermal radiation in asymmetrically illuminated droplets

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, August 2004, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  97. Computational Model of Spectral Radiation Characteristics of Diesel Fuel Droplets

    Article • Heat Transfer Research, January 2004, Begell House

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  98. The Propagation of Infrared Radiation in a Semitransparent Liquid Containing Gas Bubbles

    Article • High Temperature, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  99. Absorption of thermal radiation in a semi-transparent spherical droplet: a simplified model

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, December 2003, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  100. Heat Transfer by Radiation through a Vapor Gap under Conditions of Film Boiling of Liquid

    Article • High Temperature, November 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  101. A simplified non-isothermal model for droplet heating and evaporation

    Article • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, August 2003, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  102. A Parabolic Temperature Profile Model for Heating of Droplets

    Article • Journal of Heat Transfer, May 2003, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  103. An Estimate of the Temperature of Semitransparent Oxide Particles in Thermal Spraying

    Article • Heat Transfer Engineering, March 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  104. Spectral properties of diesel fuel droplets

    Article • Fuel, January 2003, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  105. A modified differential approximation for thermal radiation of semitransparent nonisothermal particles: application to optical diagnostics of plasma spraying

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, April 2002, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  106. Article • High Temperature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  107. Article • High Temperature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  108. Heating and evaporation of semi-transparent diesel fuel droplets in the presence of thermal radiation

    Article • Fuel, September 2001, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  109. Article • High Temperature, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  110. Heat transfer by radiation from a hot particle to ambient water through the vapor layer

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, July 2000, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  111. Thermal radiation from nonisothermal spherical particles of a semitransparent material

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, May 2000, Elsevier

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  112. Article • High Temperature, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  113. Quartz-Fiber Thermal Insulation: Infrared Radiative Properties and Calculation of Radiative-Conductive Heat Transfer

    Article • Journal of Heat Transfer, May 1996, ASME International

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  114. Radiation equilibrium for heat transfer in an absorbing and scattering planar medium

    Article • Fluid Dynamics, January 1976, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky

  115. Calculation of radiative heat transfer in a plane-parallel layer of an absorbing and scattering medium

    Article • Fluid Dynamics, July 1972, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leonid Dombrovsky