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In the last two decades, academicians have concentrated on the nanofluid squeezing flow between parallel plates. The increasing energy demands and their applications have seen the focus shifted to the hybrid nanofluid flows, but so much is still left to be investigated. This analysis is executed to explore the symmetry of the MHD squeezing nanofluid (MoS2/H2O) flow and the hybrid nanofluid (MoS2−SiO2/H2O−C2H6O2) flow between the parallel plates and their heat transport property. The heat transport phenomenon is analyzed with the magnetic field, thermal radiation, heat source/sink, suction/injection effect, and porous medium. In the present model, the plate situated above is in the movement towards the lower plate, and the latter is stretching with a linear velocity. The prevailing PDEs depicting the modeled problem with the aforementioned effects are transformed via similarity transformations and solved via the “bvp4c” function, which is an inbuilt function in MATLAB software. The control of the factors on the fields of velocity and temperature, heat transfer rate, velocity boundary layer patterns, and streamlines is investigated. The solution profiles are visually shown and explained. Furthermore, the Nusselt number at the bottom plate is larger for the (MoS2−SiO2/H2O−C2H6O2) hybrid nanofluid than for the (MoS2/H2O) nanofluid flow. In the presence of suction/injection, the streamlines appear to be denser. In addition, the magnetic field has a thinning consequence on the velocity boundary layer region. The results of this study apply to several thermal systems, engineering, and industrial processes, which utilize nanofluid and hybrid nanofluid for cooling and heating processes.

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The movement of microorganism cells in fluid influences various biotic processes, including septicity and marine life ecology. Many organic and medicinal applications need to look into the insight of mechanism in nanofluids containing a microbial suspension. The current paper concerns the bioconvection of a ternary hybrid nanofluid (Al2O3-Cu-CNT/water) flow containing motile gyrotactic microorganisms toward three different geometries (a flat plate, a wedge, and a cone) in the occurrence of natural convection, radiation, and heat source/sink. The Cattaneo–Christov theory is employed to develop the model. The equations are solved by using the “bvp4c function in MATLAB”. The influence of the crucial significant factors on the motile microorganisms’ density, velocity, temperature, nanoparticles’ concentration, microbe density gradient, and transmission rates of heat and mass is discussed. The results depict that the heat transmission rate is highest for the flow toward the cone, whereas the mass transmission rate and microbe density gradient are highest for the flow toward the wedge. In addition, the higher estimates of the thermal relaxation parameter corresponding to the Cattaneo–Christov theory act to enhance the rate of heat transmission. The results of the current study will be useful to many microbial-enhanced oil recovery systems, carriage processes, architectural design systems, medicinal fields that utilize nanofluids, and so on.

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