.... In this study, heat transfer characteristics in presence of vertical bifurcation placed downstream of the microchannel passage are studied numerically. Six types of bifurcating plates are considered under two categories: (i) thick-plate and (ii) wavy thin-wall. Water is taken as the working fluid and the flow...

... of a representative mathematical model problem. This model problem involves only the temperature field within the heater and models the heat exchange with the boiling medium via a nonlinear boundary condition imposed on the fluid-heater interface. The steady-state behavior is investigated via a bifurcation analysis...