Thermal efficiency in hybrid (Al2O3-CuO/H2O) and tri-hybrid (Al2O3-CuO-Cu/H2O) nanofluids between converging/diverging channel with viscous dissipation function: Numerical analysis

Adnan; Kamel Guedri; Zehba Raizah; Elsayed Tag-Eldin; Waqas Ashraf; Umar Khan; Ahmed M Galal

doi:10.3389/fchem.2022.960369

Thermal efficiency in hybrid (Al₂O₃-CuO/H₂O) and tri-hybrid (Al₂O₃-CuO-Cu/H₂O) nanofluids between converging/diverging channel with viscous dissipation function: Numerical analysis

Front Chem. 2022 Aug 25:10:960369. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.960369. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Adnan¹, Kamel Guedri², Zehba Raizah³, Elsayed Tag-Eldin⁴, Waqas Ashraf⁵, Umar Khan⁶, Ahmed M Galal^{7

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Mathematics, Mohi-ud-Din Islamic University, Nerian Sharif, AJ&K, Pakistan.
² Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Future University in Egypt New Cairo, Mansoura, Egypt.
⁵ Departmment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AM&S), Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁶ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hazara University Mansehra, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁷ Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Wadi Addawaser, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Production Engineering and Mechanical Design Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Abstract

Heat transfer and energy storage remain a core problem for industrialists and engineers. So, the concept of new heat transfer fluids, namely, nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids, has been introduced so far. Recently, a new third generation of heat transfer fluids has been developed known as modified hybrid nanofluids (MHNs), synthesized by ternary nanomaterials and the host fluid. Therefore, the study was conducted to investigate the energy storage efficiency between (Al₂O₃-CuO-Cu/H₂O)_mhnf and (Al₂O₃-CuO/H₂O)_hnf in the presence of novel viscous dissipation effects. The problem is developed for a channel with stretchable walls via thermophysical attributes of binary and ternary guest nanomaterials and the host liquid. The model is tackled numerically and furnished results for the dynamics, most specifically energy storage efficiency in (Al₂O₃-CuO-Cu/H₂O)_mhnf. It is examined that the third generation of heat transfer fluids (Al₂O₃-CuO-Cu/H₂O)_mhnf has high thermal energy storage efficiency than traditional nano and hybrid nanofluids. Therefore, these new insights in heat transfer would be beneficial and cope with the problems of energy storage in the modern technological world.

Keywords: engineering applications; hybrid and modified hybrid nanofluids; local energy storage; mathematical analysis; thermal energy storage; thermophysical attributes.