Fully developed hydrodynamic and thermal transport in combined pressure and electrokinetically driven flow in a microchannel with asymmetric boundary conditions

Thermally and hydrodynamically fully developed combined pressure-driven and electroosmotic flow through a channel has been simulated for isoflux wall boundary conditions. Effects of asymmetries in wall zeta potential and heat flux have been considered and closed form expressions have been obtained for transverse distribution of electric potential, velocity and temperature. The results indicate that both flow and heat transfer characteristics are significantly affected by the asymmetries in wall boundary conditions for both purely electroosmotic and combined pressure-driven and electroosmotic flow. These findings have important implications for flow and heat transfer control in microfluidics through alteration of surface conditions.