Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (Jul 2024)
Thermal analysis of the water-based micropolar hybrid nanofluid flow comprising diamond and copper nanomaterials past an extending surface
Abstract
This research demonstrates that hybrid nanofluids are superior to traditional fluids in terms of their capacity to transmit heat. An intensive investigation of hybrid nanofluids is needed to fill gaps in knowledge of heat transmission improvement methods. Therefore, scientists and researchers are combining different solid particles in various base fluids to boost the material's thermal conductivity. That's why the author has combined diamond and copper nanoparticles in a water solvent to examine the two-dimensional, steady, and incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) hybrid micropolar nanofluid flow over a permeable extending surface through the porous media. The Cattaneo-Christov heat and mass flux model is used to assess the heat and mass diffusion occurrences in temperature and concentration distributions. The similarity transformations are used to convert the PDEs along with their related boundary constraints into a set of nonlinear ODEs. A semi-analytical method known as HAM is used with the help of MATHEMATICA software to perform an analytical analysis on the set of nonlinear ODEs. The impacts of many important factors on the velocity, microrotation, thermal, and concentration functions are demonstrated through graphs and discussed in detail. The study results demonstrate that velocity distribution is a declining function of the magnetic field and porosity parameter. The magnetic field, Brownian motion, heat source, thermophoresis, and radiation parameters have positively influenced the thermal profile, while the thermal relaxation parameter has a negative influence on it. Nanoparticle volume fraction improves the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. Heat transfer and skin friction are both amplified by the magnetic field. The skin-friction coefficient improves with an increase in the permeability parameter and the volume percentage of nanoparticles. Also, nanoparticles volume fraction enhances the mass transfer rate. Hybrid nanofluids have superior thermal characteristics over regular fluids.
