On the angular velocity slip in nano-flows

The need of reformulation for basic concepts of fluid mechanics in order to account some enhancement phenomena in micro- and nano-flows is presented in the paper. The work is a general formulation of angular velocity slip condition which is developed from primary principles. It is postulated that the different slipping phenomena take place within a thin shell-like layer where a material particle undergoes independently: the slip velocity and angular slip velocity. We suppose also that the molecules rolling at the layer can give a serious contribution to the mass flow enhancement, and therefore, it can be a reason to inclusion of a mathematical modeling for molecules angular momentum. In this paper, we propose the general form of an angular momentum balance for the shell-like layer. This balance is expressed by the surface divergence of an unsymmetric surface stress and an unsymmetric surface couple stress, either by the bulk momentum and bulk moment of momentum or by a surface friction torque. With constitutive relations appropriate for a linear, viscous, isotropic fluid and the constitutive relation for frictional resistance, we obtain generalized Navier-type boundary equations for the slip velocity and the angular slip velocity. As special cases, Poisson’s type boundary condition and Aero–Bulygin–Kuvshlinskii’s angular slip condition are obtained. Proposed here boundary conditions have few applications in modeling of complex nano-flows phenomena. For instant, recently discovered electropumping phenomena by De Luca et al. (J Chem Phys 138:154712-1–154712-10, 2013a ) are based on nano-coupling of angular momentum with linear momentum and the electroosmotic draining effect. The theoretical background relies upon different angular velocity slip of dipolar liquids when confined between hydrophobic and hydrophilic solid surfaces—this phenomenon combined with applied rotating electric field leads to pumping of liquid. In our opinion, a concept of angular velocity slip leads to an explanation of the electropumping effect enhancement in nano-channels.