Heat transfer analysis of hybrid nanofluid flow with thermal radiation through a stretching sheet: A comparative study

Abstract

A review of the literature reveals that nanofluids are more efficient for heat transmission than regular fluids. However, the illumination of current strategies for the enhancement of heat transfer in nanoparticles has significant gaps, necessitating a thorough examination of the aforementioned models. The present research work aims to investigate the significance of thermal radiation effects with the role of heat source-sink in the presence of hybrid nanofluid across a stanching surface. Here we use ethylene glycol as a base fluid with nanoparticles like copper, Aluminium oxide, and graphene oxide. The main governing PDEs are converted into non-linear ODEs by using similarity transformations. The built-in numerical technique bvp4c is utilized in the MATLAB to obtain the approximate integration of the flow work. The behaviors of numerous physical flow parameters are scrutinized graphically and numerically. Our study findings show that the velocity profile increases with rising changes of Deborah number while decreasing with increasing magnetic parameter estimations. The thermal distributions profile declared rising performance for the increasing values of Biot number, thermal radiation while declining for the growing variations of Deborah number. The current study used computational analyses to examine the effect of employing hybrid nanofluid in various heat transfer applications. The obtained results demonstrated the effective application of nanofluid.