TY - JOUR
T1 - Wall Shear Stress and Heat Transfer Analysis of Hybrid Nanofluid Flow Across a Riga Parallel Plate With Non-Uniform Heat Source/Sink and Activation Energy
T2 - Sensitivity Analysis Approach
AU - Nihaal, K. M.
AU - Mahabaleshwar, U. S.
AU - Bognar, G. V.
AU - Laroze, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2025/12/30
Y1 - 2025/12/30
N2 - Engineers can accomplish customised thermal properties that maximise fluid performance in various operating scenarios by hybridising alloy nanoparticles. The present study provides new insights into the heat and mass transfer of the squeezing flow of hybrid nanofluid between the parallel Riga plates under the impacts of shape effects, non-uniform heat generation/absorption and activation energy. A suitable similarity approach is implemented to transform governing equations into non-linear systems of ordinary differential equations and is solved numerically using the bvp-5c technique. The results show that the velocity profile increases near the lower plate and decreases near the upper plate. In contrast, both the temperature and concentration profiles rise for growing values of the squeezing number. It is found that both temperature and concentration profile rise for augmented values of the Biot number parameters. Also, engineering factors are discussed graphically with specific parameters. Further, properly aligned residual plots and less variance in fitted values reveal the response surface methodology's great accuracy and validity. And from the sensitivity analysis, it is observed that the Skin friction has a positive influence for Hartman and porosity parameters and negative influence for squeezing parameter also the Nusselt number has a negative sensitivity for both squeezing and Biot number and less positive sensitive to the Hartman number.
AB - Engineers can accomplish customised thermal properties that maximise fluid performance in various operating scenarios by hybridising alloy nanoparticles. The present study provides new insights into the heat and mass transfer of the squeezing flow of hybrid nanofluid between the parallel Riga plates under the impacts of shape effects, non-uniform heat generation/absorption and activation energy. A suitable similarity approach is implemented to transform governing equations into non-linear systems of ordinary differential equations and is solved numerically using the bvp-5c technique. The results show that the velocity profile increases near the lower plate and decreases near the upper plate. In contrast, both the temperature and concentration profiles rise for growing values of the squeezing number. It is found that both temperature and concentration profile rise for augmented values of the Biot number parameters. Also, engineering factors are discussed graphically with specific parameters. Further, properly aligned residual plots and less variance in fitted values reveal the response surface methodology's great accuracy and validity. And from the sensitivity analysis, it is observed that the Skin friction has a positive influence for Hartman and porosity parameters and negative influence for squeezing parameter also the Nusselt number has a negative sensitivity for both squeezing and Biot number and less positive sensitive to the Hartman number.
KW - hybrid nanofluid
KW - non-uniform heat absorption/generation
KW - parallel Riga plates
KW - porous medium
KW - sensitivity analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105025579858
U2 - 10.1002/nme.70233
DO - 10.1002/nme.70233
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105025579858
SN - 0029-5981
VL - 126
JO - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
IS - 24
M1 - e70233
ER -