The heat transport and entropy formation of an unsteady Sutterby hybrid nanofluid (SBHNF) are investigated in this work. SBHNF’s flowing and thermal transport properties are investigated by exposing the nanofluid to a slippery hot surface. This analysis includes the influences of solid-shaped nanoparticles, porous materials, radiative flux, and viscous dissipative flow. The Galerkin finite element technique (G-FEM) is used to find self-similar solutions to equations that are then transformed into ODEs using appropriate transformations. This research considers two diverse kinds of nanosolid-particles, copper (Cu) and graphene oxide (GO), using non-Newtonian engine-oil (EO) as the working fluid. In the flowing, energy, skin friction, Nusselt number, and entropy production, important findings for the various variables are visually depicted. The most notable finding of the analysis is that when SBHNF (GO–Cu/EO) is compared to a typical nanofluid (Cu–EO), the thermal transmission rate of SBHNF (GO–Cu/EO) gradually increases. Furthermore, heat transfer is greatest for spherical-shaped nanoparticles and lowest for lamina-shaped nanoparticles. The entropy in the model is increased when the size of the nanoparticles
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is increased. The comparable impact is noticed once the radiation flowing
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and Deborah number
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increase.
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