Significance of radiant-energy and multiple slips on convective flow of mono, binary and ternary hybrid nanofluids: A comparative study

Abstract

To meet the energy requirement of the world, this work addresses the MHD flow of ternary hybrid nanofluid between two rotating and stretchable disks having porous medium. Thermal radiation effects along with velocity slips at the interface of fluid and disk are considered in this study. Three types of nanoparticles, namely, Al2O3 (alumina), CuO (copper oxide) and Cu (copper), have been taken with water as the host fluid. The flow and thermal characteristics of hybrid (Al2O[Formula: see text]) and ternary (Al2O[Formula: see text]) nanofluids formed by the combination of nanoparticles have been observed. This combination aids in the breakdown of dangerous compounds, environmental purification and the cooling of other equipment. The corresponding equations are modeled in terms of PDEs, and these PDEs are transformed into ODEs using Von Karman similarity transformations. The resulting equations are solved by using finite difference method based ND solver. The rate of heat transfer increases with the rise in thermal Biot numbers. Moreover, the solution predicts that for variations in radiation parameter from 0.5 to 1.5, heat transfer upsurges 88% for traditional nanoparticles, 92.4% for hybrid nanoparticles while for trihybrid nanoparticles, it grows up from 0% to 95%.