A numerical exploration of the comparative analysis on water and kerosene oil-based Cu–CuO/hybrid nanofluid flows over a convectively heated surface

Abstract

Abstract The fluid flow over an extending sheet has many applications in different fields which include, manufacturing processes, coating, thin film decomposition, heat and mass transfer, biomedical applications, aerospace engineering, environmental science, energy production. Keeping in mind these applications, the non-Newtonian hybrid nanofluid flow comprising of Cu and CuO nanoparticles over an extending sheet is analyzed in this work. Two different base fluids called kerosene oil and water have been incorporated. The sheet is considered to be thermally convective along with zero mass flux condition. The main equations of modeled problem have been transformed to dimensionless form by using similarity variables. The designed problem is evaluated computationally by using bvp4c Matlab function. Validation of the present results is also performed. The impacts of magnetic, Brownian motion, chemical reaction, suction and thermophoresis factors are analyzed and discussed in details. The outcomes of the present investigation declare that the kerosene oil-based hybrid nanofluid flow has greater velocity and concentration profiles than that of the water-based hybrid nanofluid flow. The water-based hybrid nanofluid has greater temperature distribution than that of kerosene oil-based hybrid nanofluid flow. The streamlines of the kerosene oil-based Newtonian and non-Newtonian hybrid nanofluid flows are more stretched than water-based Newtonian and non-Newtonian hybrid nanofluid flows.