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Employing an analytical methodology, we demonstrate the temperature distribution and its consequential effects on the heat-transfer and entropy-generation behaviour in the annulus. We bring out the momentous effect of viscous dissipation on the underlying transport of heat as modulated by the degree of thermal asymmetries. Our results also show that the variation of the Nusselt number exhibits an unbounded swing for some values of the Brinkman number and degrees of asymmetrical wall heating. We explain the appearance of unbounded swing on the variation of the Nusselt number from the energy balance in the flow field as well as from the second law of thermodynamics. 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