The impacts of shape factor and heat transfer on two-phase flow of nano and hybrid nanofluid in a saturated porous medium

P V Ananth Subray; B N Hanumagowda; S V K Varma; Mohammad Hatami

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-26169-z

The impacts of shape factor and heat transfer on two-phase flow of nano and hybrid nanofluid in a saturated porous medium

Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 18;12(1):21864. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26169-z.

Authors

P V Ananth Subray¹, B N Hanumagowda¹, S V K Varma¹, Mohammad Hatami^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Applied Sciences, REVA University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
² Mechanical Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. m-hatami@um.ac.ir.
³ Mechanical Engineering Department, Esfarayen University of Technology, Esfarayen, North Khorasan, Iran. m-hatami@um.ac.ir.

Abstract

The focus of this article is to obtain the effect of shape factor of the hybrid nanoparticles on the convective heat and mass transference of two immiscible fluids in an inclined duct by employing the perturbation technique. The hybrid nanoparticle of Carbon Nanotube & Sodium alginate is being used with Silicon oil as the base fluid to study the heat and mass phenomena due to the soret effect, viscous dissipation, Darcy and Thermal diffusion. The physical flow problem is then modelled into a set of differential equations. The system of equations is solved analytically to obtain various graphical and numerical results for analyzing the impact of various material parameters on velocity and thermal field. The heat transfer rate and skin friction analysis for the flow dynamics are also investigated. It is observed that the shape factor enhances the fluid flow and temperature distribution. In specific lamina shape particles have better performance comparatively, significance of the soret number can also be observed.