Detailed investigation on thermal enhancement and mass transport in 3D flow of Carreau–Yasuda ternary and hybrid nanofluids using the finite element method
International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
ISSN: 0961-5539
Article publication date: 28 September 2023
Issue publication date: 22 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to analyze the transportation of heat and mass in three-dimensional (3D) shear rate-dependent viscous fluid. Thermal enhancement plays a significant role in industrial and engineering applications. For this, the authors dispersed trihybrid nanoparticles into the fluid to enhance the working fluid’s thermal enhancement.
Design/methodology/approach
The finite element method is a numerical scheme and is powerful in achieving convergent and grid-independent solutions compared with other numerical techniques. This method was initially assigned to structural problems. However, it is equally successful for computational fluid dynamics problems.
Findings
Wall shear stress has shown an increasing behavior as the intensity of the magnetic field is increased. Simulations have predicted that Ohmic heat in the case of trihybrid nanofluid (MoS2–Al2O3–Cu/C2H6O2) has the greatest value in comparison with mono and hybrid nanofluids. The most significant influence of chemical reaction on the concentration in tri-nanofluid is noted. This observation is pointed out for both types of chemical reaction (destructive or generative) parameters.
Originality/value
Through a literature survey, the authors analyzed that no one has yet to work on a 3D magnetohydrodynamics Carreau–Yasuda trihybrid nanofluid over a stretched sheet for improving heat and mass transfer over hybrid nanofluids. Herein, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and copper (Cu) nanoparticles are mixed in ethylene glycol (C2H6O2) to study the thermal enhancement and mass transport of their corresponding resultant mono (Cu/C2H6O2), hybrid (Al2O3–Cu/C2H6O2) and trihybrid (MoS2–Al2O3–Cu/C2H6O2) nanofluids.
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Acknowledgements
Authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia, for funding this research work under Grant No. (R-2023-540).
Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article “Detailed investigation on thermal enhancement and mass transport in 3D flow of Carreau–Yasuda ternary and hybrid nanofluids using the finite element method” by Shafia Rana, M. Nawaz and Sayer Obaid Alharbi, published in International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-02-2023-0062, listed the wrong author as the corresponding author. It is a requirement by the funding institution, Majmaah University, that the funding recipient, Sayer Obaid Alharbi, is listed as the corresponding author. The article has been corrected to reflect this. The authors sincerely apologise for the error and any misunderstanding.
Citation
Rana, S., Nawaz, M. and Alharbi, S.O. (2023), "Detailed investigation on thermal enhancement and mass transport in 3D flow of Carreau–Yasuda ternary and hybrid nanofluids using the finite element method", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 33 No. 12, pp. 4037-4061. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-02-2023-0062
Publisher
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