Analysis of heat transfer performance for ternary nanofluid flow in radiated channel under different physical parameters using GFEM

Abstract

BackgroundAdvanced nanofluids also termed as ternary nanofluids convinced the engineers and scientists due to unique molecular structure and enrich heat transfer capability. These potentially contributes in aerodynamics, biomedical engineering, aerospace sciences and electronic devices. In many industrial purposes, these can be used as coolant more specifically in electronic and chemical industries. MethodsThis study emphasized on the development of an efficient ternary nanofluid model between parallel plates channel. The model formulation is successfully completed via ternary nanofluid correlations and also exercised similarity equations for the possible domain. Moreover, model became more fascinating due to induction of thermal radiations and viscous dissipation. To investigate the heat transfer performance of ternary nanofluid the model treated via an efficient scheme based on residuals and linearly independent set of weight functions and is known as Galerkin Finite Element Method (GFEM). Significant findingsIt is examined that the ternary nanofluid [(Al2O3-CuO-Fe3O4)/EO]mbnf is a suitable heat transport fluid than common binary nanofluid [(Al2O3-CuO)/EO]bnf nanofluids. further, induction of solar thermal radiations and convection through the plate are vital sources to upshoot the internal heat transmission of the [(Al2O3-CuO-Fe3O4)/EO]mbnf and it would allow the researchers and engineers for large scale applications. The feasible parametric ranges that pride considerable heat transfer are Bi = 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1 and Eckert number are Ec = 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1 while keeping the weight concentration of nanoparticles up to 6.0%.