Stability analysis of radiative-magnetive Ag −MoS 2/water hybrid nanofluid flow due to a permeable exponential surface with variable thermal conductivity, mass diffusivity and binary chemical reaction: an entropy generation

Abstract

ABSTRACT This investigation concentrated on the /water hybrid nanofluid to solve the problem of heat-mass transmission across a permeable stretching/contracting sheet with the impacts of radiant heat and inclined magnetic force field. Here, we additionally take into account hybrid nanofluids with variable thermal conductivity, variable mass diffusivity, Joule dissipation, binary chemical reactions with velocity, and thermal and solutal slip conditions. Before being numerically solved by the MATLAB function bvp4c, the controlling PDE is converted into nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations by appropriate similarity transformation. The findings also point to the presence of dual solutions in the stretching/contracting sheet region for a given value of the mass suction parameter, with stable upper branch solution and unstable lower branch solution. As a result of the velocity and temperature gradients, the entropy generation equation is constructed. The effects of the selected parameters are discussed and visually displayed for the velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number, and Sherwood number. Due to some selected flow parameters, the pattern of entropy formation and assessment of the Bejan number are anticipated. Furthermore, it is discovered that when the volume percentage of nanoparticles increases, the Sherwood number decreases, and the skin friction coefficient increases with the rate of heat transmission. The Bejan number and entropy generation rate both increase with the volume proportion of nanoparticles and the radiant heat parameter, according to the visual simulations created using the present model.