Entropy Analysis in Magnetized Blood-Based Hybrid Nanofluid Flow via Parallel Disks

Abstract

Magnetized hybrid nanofluid combined with ferrite and silver in a blood-based liquid presents their vital role in several aspects such as artificial heart pumping system, drug delivery process, the flow of blood in the artery, etc. This is because the high heat transportation rate of the nanofluid is caused by the inclusion of nanoparticles. The current investigation is based on the characteristic of particle concentration comprised of Fe3O4 and Ag in the base liquid blood that passed in between two infinite parallel disks filled with porous matrix. The electrically conducting fluid associated to maximum of 1.5% of volume concentration from each of the solid particles affects the flow phenomena. However, the impact of thermal radiation vis-à-vis the heat dissipation provides efficient heat transport properties with the inclusion of the effective thermal conductivity assumed from the Hamilton-Crosser model. The proposed conductivity model describes the role of particle shapes on the enhanced thermal properties. Further, numerical treatment is obtained for the transformed designed problem following similarity rules that are used for the conversion of the governing equations into their non-dimensional form. The computation of various flow profiles leads to get the entropy generation due to the irreversibility processes. Along with the fluid velocity and temperature distributions, the study is carried out for the entropy as well as the computation of Bejan number and afterwards the simulation of the shear and heat transportation rate are also depicted graphically. The main finding of the proposed study is that solid particle concentrations have a substantial impact to increasing fluid velocity in magnitude, resulting in a narrower wall thickness at both channel walls. Thermal radiation was shown to be more effective at increasing entropy generation and Bejan value.