The electrically conducting water-based nanofluid flow containing titanium and aluminum alloys over a rotating disk surface with nonlinear thermal radiation: A numerical analysis

Abstract

Abstract A metallic alloy is a combination of two or more elements, often called a compound or a solution. Steel is largely composed of carbon, a nonmetal, but alloys are often made up of metals. In this article, the authors have explored the electrically conducting water-based viscous nanofluids flow past a rotating disk surface. The nanofluids flow is composed of titanium and aluminum alloys where water is used as a base fluid. Two important cases, namely the stretching case and the shrinking case, were investigated to analyze the flow behaviors due to the different embedding factors. The impacts of viscous Joule heating, thermophoresis, Brownian motion, activation energy, nonlinear thermal radiation, and chemical reaction are investigated here. By employing an appropriate set of variables for shifting the leading equations to dimension-free form. The mathematical model is solved numerically by incorporating the bvp4c MATLAB scheme. Current work is validated with previous studies. The outcomes showed that the radial velocity increases when the disk surface stretches and reduces when the disk surface shrinks. On the other hand, the Azimuthal velocity increases when the disk surface shrinks and reduces when disk surface stretches. Both the radial and Azimuthal velocities are the diminishing functions of the magnetic factor, whereas temperature is the growing function of magnetic factor. In addition, the temperature is more influenced by the magnetic factor in the case of nonlinear radiation. The higher magnetic factor increases skin friction. In addition, the stretching case experiences more surface drag than the shrinking case. It is found that nanofluid flow containing titanium alloy has perceived the greater impacts of the embedded factors compared to the nanofluid flow containing aluminum alloy.