Significance of radiant-energy and multiple slips on magnetohydrodynamic flow of single-walled carbon nanotube-water, titanium dioxide–water, multiwalled carbon nanotube–water, graphene oxide–water nanofluids

Abstract

The magnetohydrodynamic flow of nanofluid is studied in the present analysis by using two parallel, rotating, and stretchable disks with a porous medium. The thermal radiation effects along with velocity slips at the interface of fluid and disk are considered in this work. The water is taken as base fluid, and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), titanium dioxide (TiO[Formula: see text]), and graphene oxide (GO) are taken as nanoparticles. The corresponding equations are modeled in terms of partial differential equations and Von Karman similarity transformation approach is adopted. The resulting equations are solved by using a finite difference method-based ND Solver. The axial, radial, and tangential velocity profiles and temperature distribution are discussed with graphs and tables. Thermal radiation and convective boundary conditions are used in the heat transfer process. When the thermal Biot number of the lower disk rises, fluid temperature enhances, whereas, the fluid temperature falls with the rise in the thermal Biot number of the lower disk. It is observed that when the thermal Biot number of lower disk rises from 0.5 to 0.8, heat transfer at lower disk is increased by about 6.66% in hexagonal-shaped CNTs-based nanofluid and 6.66% in spherical shaped TiO[Formula: see text] and GO-based nanofluid. The impact of physical parameters such as skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are computed for governing parameters and discussed in detail.