Abstract
Background Heat transfer in nanofluid flows plays a vital role in many industrial, medical, and manufacturing industries. Hybrid nanofluid (HNF) has a significant potential to enhance the thermal characteristics of several fluids employed in a wide range of thermal systems and thus uses reduced energy and provides increased sustainability. Also, the thermal conductivity of nanofluid depends on the mobility of nanoparticles and that can be improved by activation energy (AE) besides the latent micro convection. Literature reveals that the research works available on the enhanced heat transfer due to the appropriate combination of nanoparticles along with AE in an asymmetric channel is very limited. Aim This study aims to explore the impact of the AE and the variable thermal conductivity (VTC) on the HNF flow in an asymmetric channel with permeable walls. The effects of radiation, thermal conductivity, and exponential heat sources are also considered. Method An effective similarity transformation is used to convert the governing equations into a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The nonlinear ODEs with appropriate boundary conditions are solved numerically by a shooting method. Results The consequences of the physical parameters on the axial velocity, temperature, and species concentration are explained and are presented through graphs. In comparison to viscous fluid, the dual nanofluids have a 5.8% higher heat transfer rate with VTC parameter at the lower wall. However, the species concentration rate of HNF is 20.0% higher than that of viscous fluid with AE parameter.
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