Abstract
Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to investigate the conjugate heat transfer of water within microchannel heat sinks. Validation process is performed through comparison between obtained numerical results and experimental data. The global deviation grid convergence index (GCI) is used to conduct solution verification and calculate observed order of accuracy. Conducted numerical analyses include hydraulic diameter range of 206–330 µm, aspect ratio of 1–4 and Reynolds numbers of 300 to 850. Heat is observed to distribute non-uniformly among microchannel side and bottom walls due to conjugate heat transfer. Results show that over 93% of heat is transferred to water through microchannel side walls at the aspect ratio of 4. It is observed that the heat distribution is more non-uniform destruction while microchannel aspect ratio gets larger.
