Jeffery-Hamel slip flow in a convergent microchannel with uniform wall temperature and streamwise heat conduction

This work is devoted to the determination of the analytical solution of the problem of the laminar forced convection of the Jeffery-Hamel slip flow through a convergent microchannel. The analytical solution is obtained by using a self-adjoint formalism of the functional analysis. The solution represents an extension of the solution obtained in the conventional continuum flow by considering the boundaries slip conditions at the wall and the streamwise heat conduction. This extension has been done by using a new matrix operator of three dimensions in the Hilbert space. The results show that the thermal characteristics are strongly influenced by the Reynolds, Prandtl and Knudsen numbers, the aperture angle of the channel and the streamwise heat conduction.