Entropy Generation in a Magnetohydrodynamic Hybrid Nanofluid Flow over a Nonlinear Permeable Surface with Velocity Slip Effect

Abstract

The current study is designed to model the hydrothermal feature of a hybrid nano liquid slip flows over a permeable expanding/contracting surface with entropy generation. The model incorporates Cu-Al2O3 nanoparticles with water as the host liquid to simulate the flow. Additional impacts incorporated into the novelty of the model are viscous dissipation and Joule heating. The model is transformed appropriately to its dimensionless form using similarity quantities and the solution is numerically obtained using the spectral quasi-linearization method (SQLM). The impact of pertinent factors on the flow characteristics is communicated through graphs for the hybrid nano-suspension to discuss the hydrothermal variations. The friction factor and the rate of heat transport are also discussed with sensible judgment through tables. To ensure the code validity, a comparison with earlier studies is conducted and excellent consensus is accomplished. The result explored that diminution in the irreversibility ratio is witnessed for rising magnetic field strength along the free stream, distance away from the permeable surface as the heat dissipation to the surrounding decelerates. Also, the augmented nonlinearity parameter intensified the heat transfer rate for about 2.79% of the hybrid nano-suspension.