Numerical investigation of non-linear radiative flow of hybrid nanofluid past a stretching cylinder with inclined magnetic field

Abstract

The study examines the magnetohydrodynamic flow of engineered fluid past an extending cylinder, analyzing the effects of non-linear radiation and an inclined magnetic field. The physical problem generates a system of non-linear coupled partial differential equations, and the system is transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformation and solved using the Runge-Kutta method and shooting technique. Also, sensitivity analysis is taken into account to observe the input variables effects on skin friction and heat transfer rate. The study reveals that magnetic field orientation, nonlinear radiation effects, and injecting more core fluid significantly impact heat transfer characteristics. The effects of angle of orientation, magnetic field, suction parameter, and volume concentration on skin friction are significant. Reynolds number significantly affects heat transfer rate by 62.15% for suction. The findings can be applied in physics and engineering to control heat transfer between stretching surfaces and engineered fluids.

Keywords:

• Hybrid nanofluids
• numerical analysis
• similarity transformation
• sensitivity analysis

Acknowledgments

The author sincerely thanks the anonymous reviewers for their informative comments and recommendations.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.