Exploring new scaling regimes for streaming potential and electroviscous effects in a nanocapillary with overlapping Electric Double Layers

•Streaming potential and electroviscous effects are calculated for a nanocapillary.•Results are obtained for thick overlapped Electric Double Layers (EDLs).•Streaming potential exhibits distinct scaling variations with the EDL thickness.•Electroviscous effect obeys streaming potential variation at small EDL values.•Electroviscous effect is independent of streaming potential for overlapped EDL.

In this paper, we unravel new scaling regimes for streaming potential and electroviscous effects in a nanocapillary with thick overlapping Electric Double Layers (EDLs). We observe that the streaming potential, for a given value of the capillary zeta (ζ) potential, varies with the EDL thickness and a dimensionless parameter R, quantifying the conduction current. Depending on the value of R, variation of the streaming potential with the EDL thickness demonstrates distinct scaling regimes: one can witness a Quadratic Regime where the streaming potential varies as the square of the EDL thickness, a Weak Regime where the streaming potential shows a weaker variation with the EDL thickness, and a Saturation Regime where the streaming potential ceases to vary with the EDL thickness. Effective viscosity, characterizing the electroviscous effect, obeys the variation of the streaming potential for smaller EDL thickness values; however, for larger EDL thickness the electroosmotic flow profile dictates the electroviscous effect, with insignificant contribution of the streaming potential.

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