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This study examines the bidimensional nonlinear convective flow of ternary hybrid nanofluid upon a nonlinear stretching sheet. Three types of nanoparticles, namely Cu , TiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , are suspended in the base fluid taken as water with a new composition Cu + TiO 2 + Al 2 O 3 / H 2 O which is termed as ternary hybrid nanofluid. To stabilize the flow and thermal properties of the new composition, the Brownian as well as thermophoresis properties are incorporated into energy and mass equations. The nonlinear thermal radiations and heat absorption/generation terms are included in the energy equation. The effects of the Darcy–Forchheimer phenomenon are also induced in the momentum equation. The set of model equations has shifted to dimension-free form by employing suitable variables. It has concluded in this study that flow characteristics have been declined with augmenting values of volumetric fractions of solid nanoparticles, porosity, and inertia factors and have upsurge with higher values of thermal and nonlinear thermal Grashof numbers. Thermal characteristics have been observed to be augmented with growth in radiation, Brownian motion, thermophoresis, heat generation/absorption, temperature ratio factors, and volumetric fraction of solid nanoparticles. These effects are more significant for ternary hybrid nanoparticles. Concentration profiles have been declined with higher values of Brownian motion factor, Lewis number, and upsurge with growth in thermophoresis factor. It has also been deduced in this investigation that the thermal flow rate is higher for trihybrid nanofluid than hybrid or traditional nanofluids, and a percentage growth in Nusselt number has been shown through statistical chart in support of this work. Current results have been compared with established results and found a fine agreement amongst all results.

The flow and heat transfer fields from a nanofluid within a horizontal annulus partly saturated with a porous region are examined by the Galerkin weighted residual finite element technique scheme. The inner and the outer circular boundaries have hot and cold temperatures, respectively. Impacts of the wide ranges of the Darcy number, porosity, dimensionless length of the porous layer, and nanoparticle volume fractions on the streamlines, isotherms, and isentropic distributions are investigated. The primary outcomes revealed that the stream function value is powered by increasing the Darcy parameter and porosity and reduced by growing the porous region’s area. The Bejan number and the average temperature are reduced by the increase in Da, porosity ε, and nanoparticles volume fractions ϕ. The heat transfer through the nanofluid-porous layer was determined to be the best toward high rates of Darcy number, porosity, and volume fraction of nanofluid. Further, the local velocity and local temperature in the interface surface between nanofluid-porous layers obtain high values at the smallest area from the porous region (D=0.4), and in contrast, the local heat transfer takes the lower value.

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In this paper, the effects of the wavy nanofluid/porous interface on the mixed convection and entropy generations of Cu–water nanofluid in a horizontally partitioned non-Darcy porous double lid-dri...

The effect of multiple slip boundary conditions is one more important physical parameter on the flow investigation and have been studied in this analysis. Further, the effect of Ohmic heating and varying chemical reaction on non-Newtonian Prandtl hybrid nanofluid with water based nanofluids to an extending of leading edge was also investigated to this current analysis. An inclined magnetic field is introduced to fluid flow to regulate the fluid stream. Hybrid nanomaterial is synthesized by the dispersion of Cu and Cofe2O4 nanoparticles in Prandtl fluid. All chemical science specifications of nanofluid are measured as constant. Due to the nanofluid particles motion, the fluid concentration is inspected underneath chemical implications. A mathematical model is developed by assuming the flow as incompressible and purely cartesian coordinate system and appropriate non-dimensional variables are introduced for problem simplifications and dimensional analysis. The scheme for semi analytical study named Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) is implied to get solutions to the equations. The procedure is then displayed pictorially where fluid velocity, temperature and concertation against various pertinent parameters are examined. It was found that, the Concentration field profiles have been shown to deteriorate because molecule diffusivity reduces as the chemical reaction parameter rises in both cases. In order to maintain thermal balance management in tiny heat density equipment and gadgets, current research may also be helpful in enhancing the thermal efficiency of heat exchangers.

In this article, the impacts of the Hall current on the 3D forced convection and heat transfer due to the rotation of a disk are examined. The disk's surface is considered to be rigid or stretched and the non-Newtonian viscoelastic nanofluids are assumed to be the working suspension. The convective boundary conditions together with passively control of the nanoparticles are imposed to the disk's surface. Several important influences are considered such as Ohmic heating, thermal radiation, heat generation/absorption and Arrhenius energy. The transformed governing equations are solved numerically using the shooting technique with 4th order Runge-Kutta method. The major findings revealed that the Hall current parameter enhances the radial velocity in both rigid and stretched surface while the tangential velocity has lower features. Also, the viscoelastic nanofluid parameter causes lower behaviors of tangential velocity and nanofluid temperatures. The considered range of the Hall parameter causes an increase in the heat transfer rate by 1.73%.

Abstract A transient two-dimensional ISPH method based on the time-fractional derivative was applied for emulating thermosolutal convection of the nano-encapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) embedded in an annulus between an inner wavy shape and outer hexagonal-shaped cavity. The impacts of a magnetic field and double rotations amongst an inner wavy shape and outer hexagonal-shaped cavity on the heat and mass transmission of NEPCM in an annulus have been conducted. Effects of a time parameter τ (0.01 − 1), frequency parameter ω (1 − 7), fractional time derivative α (0.95 − 1), Darcy parameter Da (10−2 − 10−4), Hartmann number Ha (0 − 100), fusion temperature θf (0.05 − 0.8), and Rayleigh number Ra (103 − 105) on the contours of temperature, heat capacity, concentration, and velocity field as well as profiles of Nu ¯ and Sh ¯ are investigated. The main findings signaled that the double rotations plays effectively in speed up the nanofluid movements, and changing the features of temperature, concentration, and heat capacity inside an annulus. An augmentation in a frequency parameter boosts the nanofluid speed by 128.57%. A decline in α from 1 to 0.95 enhances the maximum nanofluid velocity by 13.73%. The nanofluid movements within an annulus are reduced according to an increase in Ha and a decrease in Da. The power in the Rayleigh number enhances the nanofluid movements within an annulus.