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MHD (SWCNTS + MWCNTS)/H2O-Based Williamson Hybrid Nanouids Flow Past Exponential Shrinking Sheet in Porous Medium
1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ajloun National University, P.O. Box 43, Ajloun, 26810, Jordan
2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Persiaran Lebuhraya Tun Khalil Yaakob, Kuantan, Pahang, 26300,
Malaysia
* Corresponding Author: Hamzeh Taha Alkasasbeh. Email:
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2023, 21, 265-279. https://doi.org/10.32604/fhmt.2023.041539
Received 26 April 2023; Accepted 09 June 2023; Issue published 30 November 2023
Abstract
The present study numerically investigates the flow and heat transfer of porous Williamson hybrid nanofluid on an exponentially shrinking sheet with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects. The nonlinear partial differential equations which governed the model are first reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations by using the similarity transformation. Next, the BVP4C solver is applied to solve the equations by considering the pertinent fluid parameters such as the permeability parameter, the magnetic parameter, the Williamson parameter, the nanoparticle volume fractions and the wall mass transfer parameter. The single (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanoparticles are taken as the hybrid nanoparticles. It is found that the increase in magnetic parameter in SWCNT + MCWNT hybrid nanofluid results in an increase of 72.2% on skin friction compared to SWCNT nanofluid while maintaining reducing a small number of Nusselt number. This shows the potential of the Williamson hybrid nanofluid for friction application purposes especially in transportation like braking system, flushing fluid and mechanical engineering.Keywords
Nomenclature
Magnetic field strength, Wb | |
Local skin friction coefficient | |
Specific heat capacity, Jkg−1K−1 | |
Permeability parameter, tma−1 | |
K | Variable permeability of porous medium |
Length of sheet, M | |
M | Magnetic parameter |
Nusselt number | |
Prandtl number | |
Heat flux, Wm−2 | |
Local reynolds number | |
Wall mass transfer parameter | |
T | Temperature, K |
Reference temperature, K | |
Variable shrinking velocity, Ms−1 | |
Variable velocity of suction/injection, Ms−1 | |
Velocity component along x-axis, Ms−1 | |
Velocity component along Y-axis, Ms−1 | |
Williamson parameter | |
Dynamic viscosity, Kgm−1s−1 | |
Kinematic viscosity, M2s−1 | |
P | Density, Kgm−3 |
Σ | Electrical conductivity, A2s3kg−1m−3 |
Stream function, Kgm−1s−1 | |
Wall shear stress, Kgm−1s−2 | |
Nanoparticle volume fraction | |
Subscripts | |
Base fluid | |
SWCNTs | |
MWCNTs | |
Hybrid Nanofluid | |
Wall/Surface | |
Ambient Environment |
Nanofluid played a vital role in industrial and automotive applications. It is widely used as the radiator coolant, brake fluid and as a smart fluid in battery devices. Nanofluid is also applied as a coolant medium at a nuclear reactors, geothermal power, tire plant as well as in very small electronic applications such as microchip coolers [1].
Historically, the term nanofluid has first been coined by Choi et al. [2] to express the term nanofluid (nanoparticles fluid suspension). The nano size (<100 nm) solid particles in the fluid later known as the nanoparticles are usually made from metal or oxide. Metal nanoparticles such as zinc Zn, copper Cu and silver Ag are popular because of their high in thermal conductivities [3–5]. On the other side, these metal nanoparticles are high in density and thus promoted high friction between fluid and surface which cause corrosion. Furthermore, it is expensive. Meanwhile, the oxide nanoparticles are cheap and economical to be produced in mass production, but the oxide nanoparticles have low thermal conductivities. Increasing the percentage of nanoparticles in the fluid may increase the thermal behavior performance, but too many nanoparticles in the fluid will promote clogging.
Hybrid nanofluids can be considered as a new generation of Nanofluids. It is a very new idea. This is the composition of two variant types of dispersed nanoparticles in base fluids. This phenomenon have tale features that might make them helpful in many heat transfer organizations, like microelectronics, components of energy, pharmaceutical equipment, half breed powdered engines, engine cooling, car warming Administration, home cooler, chiller, thermal exchanger, atomic reactor coolant, grinding machinery, space innovation [6]. Sundar et al. [7] have proposed a thorough process for generating hybrid nanofluids, including their advantages and disadvantages. Waini et al. [8] have investigated the stretching and contracting of a sheet-induced hybrid nanofluid created by adding copper nanoparticles to an Al2O3/water nanofluid. To explore the impact of thermal radiation, chemical reaction, suction, and slip condition on the heat and mass transfer of an unsteady MHD flow across a stretched surface, researchers Sreedevi et al. [9] have combined both carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles in the base fluid (water). The influence of radiation and suction on the dynamics of an MHD hybrid nanofluid moving through a stretching sheet has been studied by Yashkun et al. [10].
With the rising era of graphene, the carbon nanotube (CNT) seems to be the alternative for the high-density issue of metal nanoparticles while providing better thermal conductivity than oxide nanoparticles. Anuar et al. [11] studied the stability analysis of flow and heat transfer of carbon nanotubes over a moving plate. The heat transfer capabilities between the single (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanoparticles in water as a based fluid are numerically examined. Next, Hayat et al. [12] investigated the carbon nanotube effects represented by SWCNTs and MWCNTs nanoparticles in the melting heat transfer over an impermeable stretchable surface in a nanofluid. Zaki et al. [13] concluded that the presence of SWCNTs nanoparticles in the Cu/water nanofluid so-called SWCNTs-Cu/water hybrid nanofluid dramatically raised the surface temperature and the heat transfer coefficient. Recently, Idrees et al. [14] studied the 3D rotational flow and heat transfer dynamics of a hybrid (SWCNT-MWCNT) nanofluid.
Considering the stretching/shrinking sheet in industrial processes, the heat transfer rate on the stretching/shrinking components plays an important factor in the quality of the product produces. Since half a century ago, the investigation of convection flow past a stretching/shrinking sheet has attracted the researcher’s attention [15]. The investigation evolved by including various physical external forces on a fluid flow such as the magnetic effects, the thermal radiation effects, the chemical reaction, the viscous dissipation, the heat generation/absorption and the permeability effects [16–20]. Recently, the bio-convection and activation energy across of Prandtl nanofluid flow on a stretching cylinder has been investigated by Shah et al. [21].
The study flows on a stretching sheet then are extended by considering the industrial fluid such as the Maxwell fluid, the Williamson hybrid ferrofluid, the micropolar nanofluid, the second-grade nanofluid, the Casson nanofluid and the viscoelastic nanofluid as recently studied by [22–28].
Motivated by the above literature, the present study investigates the carbon nanotube Williamson hybrid nanofluid flow on an exponentially stretching sheet with MHD effects. The SWCNTs and MWCNTs nanoparticles are taken as the hybrid particles. Such investigation has never been done before, so the reported result in this study is new. This research will be answering whether the blended carbon nanotube performs better than the single carbon nanotube nanofluid and the effects of the magnetic, shrinking surface, and the porosity in the fluid on the fluid flow and heat transfer performance.
Consider a steady 2-dimensional Williamson hybrid nanofluid boundary layer flow with single (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanoparticles with water H2O as a based-fluid on an exponentially shrinking sheet. The porous surface is considered, with variable wall mass suction/injection applied through it. Fig. 1 shows a physical representation of this situation. Physical model of the fluid flow can be modelled to a basic equation for motion and energy distribution are as follows [28]:
subjected to
where
where
Note that the properties related to base fluid, the SWCNTs and MWCNTs nanoparticles are denoted with subscript
Using Eq. (5), the Eqs. (2) and (3) can be expressed in the form of self-similar nonlinear equations as follows:
where
The boundary conditions in Eq. (4) is reduced to the following forms:
Here,
where
Using the definitions described above then the
with
The transformed ordinary differential Eqs. (6) and (7) with the boundary conditions (8) were solved numerically considering the water-based Williamson nanofluid SWCNTs/H2O and the water-based Williamson hybrid nanofluid (SWCNTs + MWCNTs)/H2O. Results from the study are presented in a graphic and tabular format, with a focus on the model’s mathematical components and their effects on velocity, temperature, and physical interest quantities. This study used the numerical technique from bvp4c function in MATLAB. bvp4c is the finite difference code implements the well-known three-stage Lobatto IIIA formula. Named after Rehuel Lobatto, this method is a collocation formula as Runge-Kutta method and provides a fourth-order accurate uniformly results. Related works that implements the bvp4c method included [30,31] and recently by [32,33].
To use this approach, the transformed ordinary differential equations are converted into the system of 1st order differential equations, which is followed as
with
Corresponding boundary condition are converted as
The resulting transformation above with the suitable IVP are coded into MATLAB software to compute numerically, see Fig. 2.
The transformed ordinary differential Eqs. (6) and (7) with boundary conditions (8) were solved numerically using the BVP4C function in MATLAB software. The numerical computation considers the changes of pertinent parameters such as the permeability parameter
The effects of fluid parameters on the reduced skin friction coefficient
Table 3 tabulated the effects of fluid parameters on the reduced Nusselt number
In discussing the fluid flow behavior across the boundary layer, Figs. 3–7 are illustrated. From Figs. 3 and 5, it is found that the increase of M, K and S has slightly increased the fluid flow velocity while reducing the velocity boundary layer thickness. The reduction in the thickness of the boundary layer physically leads to the increase in velocity gradient which derives to the increase in skin friction coefficient as found in Table 2. The same pattern occurs in Fig. 7 where the increase in
Lastly, Figs. 8 and 9 depicted the temperature profiles
.
The study on the flow and heat transfer of porous Williamson hybrid nanofluid on an exponentially shrinking sheet with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects are numerically studied. The influence of the fluid parameters such as the permeability parameter
• The increase in M, K,
• The small increase has been recorded on a Nusselt number as M and K increase.
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• The water-based Williamson hybrid nanofluid (SWCNTs + MWCNTs)/H2O has a lower Nusselt number compared to the water-based Williamson nanofluid SWCNTs/H2O. This might be explained by the increase in fluid thermal conductivity in the fluid thus increasing the domination of conduction over the convection heat flow.
• The increase in magnetic paramater in SWCNTs + MCWNTs hybrid nanofluid results to the increase of 72.2% on skin friction compared to SWCNT nanofluid.
We note that this analysis may be extended for the Jeffrey fluid, Oldroyd-B fluid and other non-Newtonian fluids.
Acknowledgement: Authors are grateful to acknowledge the Ajloun National University for providing the facilities support.
Funding Statement: The authors received no specific funding for this study.
Author Contributions: Alkasasbeh T. H Formal Analysis, Investigation, and Methodology; Software and Validation; Muhammad K. A. M Writing—Review and Editing. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Availability of Data and Materials: The data used in this paper can be requested from the corresponding author upon request.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
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