A comparative analysis of spherically and cylindrically shaped nanoparticles containing nanofluid flows over a permeable rotating disk affected by nanoparticles radius and nanolayer

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of spherically and cylindrically shaped nanoparticles immersed separately in a graphene oxide/water nanofluid mixture over a rotating disk influenced by Hall current. The disk’s surface is permeable with suction/injection impact. In order to reveal the thermal integrity of the flow, the effect of nanoparticle diameter and the liquid–solid interfacial layer at the molecular level is also introduced. Estimates of thermal conductivity, interfacial layer thickness and the radius of both spherical and cylindrical particles are taken from experimental studies and utilized to investigate the thermal behavior of the flows. The Tiwari–Das model for nanofluid flow is considered that incorporates the thermal radiative impact in the energy equation. The equations obeying boundary layer theory are resolved to ordinary differential equations using a transformation, and further numerically computed with the bvp4c scheme. The velocities and the temperature profiles are graphically demonstrated versus the dimensionless parameters. Quantities of physical interest such as surface heat flux and surface drag coefficient are tabulated numerically. The results show that the surface drag is larger for nanofluids having cylindrical particles than for nanofluids containing spherical particles. Is also found that the heat transfer rate is greater for nanofluids containing cylindrical particles than spherical particles at higher interfacial layer thicknesses.