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Heat Transport of Electrokinetic Flow in Slit Soft Nanochannels
1School of Mathematical Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010021, China. wangzehua19931226@163.com.
Abstract:
Soft nanochannels are defined as nanochannels with a polyelectrolyte layer (PEL) on the rigid walls. In the present study, the thermal transport properties of the fluids through slit soft nanochannels are investigated under the combined influences of pressure-driven and streaming potential. Based on the analytical solutions of electric potential and velocity distributions, a dimensionless temperature of electrolyte solution in soft nanochannels is obtained by resolving the energy equation. Then, a finite difference method is used to compute the energy equation and test the validity of the analytical solution. Results show that the temperature increases with the decrease of dimensionless velocity and the heat transfer rate for rigid nanochannel are higher than that for the soft one. Moreover, we find the total entropy generation decreases with the increases of the ratio K of the electrical double layer (EDL) thickness in PEL to the EDL thickness on the solid wall.
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