Dissipative MHD flow of ternary‐hybrid nanofluid over an inclined stretching sheet with heat source and mass flux due to temperature gradient

Abstract

An analysis has been made to illuminate the unsteady MHD slip flow of ternary‐hybrid nanofluid of water conveying spherical Cu, cylindrical Al2O3, and platelet Ag nanoparticles over an inclined stretching sheet. The above complex scenario explores how the presence of a magnetic field affects the behavior of ternary‐hybrid nanofluid over an inclined stretching surface. Understanding this interaction is crucial in advanced thermal systems like cooling mechanisms and energy generation technologies. The study can provide insights into optimizing heat transfer rates, enhancing thermal conductivity and improving efficiency in practical applications by manipulating the flow characteristics and temperature distribution in the system. The heat transfer has been analyzed incorporating Darcy dissipation and heat source in the presence of 1st order velocity slip. The presence of Soret effect makes the study more congenial. Using similarity transformation technique, the governing partial differential equations are converted into a system of ordinary differential equations. The reduced system is dealt with 4th order Runge–Kutta method with shooting technique. The comparison with earlier results gives a reliability of present results. The important findings are: velocity of the flow decelerates for higher values of 1st order slip parameter, velocity of the flow increases with increase in Soret number, increasing values of chemical reaction parameter lead to lower concentration in both the cases, that is, with or without velocity slip.