Transport of ternary nanofluid through a micro-channel embedding with porous medium for the impact of dissipative and radiating heat: Useful in sensor devices

Abstract

The current investigation of ternary nanofluid (NF) flow gained attention in different sensor devices for its unique properties and potential applications. In particular, the applications are temperature sensors, humidity sensor, gas sensor, bio-medical sensor, etc., where the role of the ternary NF is important. The interest on several aspects in recent scenario, the present investigation leads to exhibits the behavior of water-based ternary NF with the combined effect of Fe₃O₄, Ag, and TiO₂ through a micro-channel is initiated. The channel is equipped with permeable medium associated to dissipative heat (viscous and Joule) and thermal radiation energies the transport phenomena. However, the additional heat source/sink with convective heat boundary conditions also affects the flow properties. The proposed model designed using various thermal properties undergo similarity properties that lead to the nondimensional form of the system of equations. The simulated results of the characterizing parameters are obtained with the help of numerical approach. In particular, a built-in MATLAB function adopts the shooting-based runge-Kutta fourth-order technique.

Keywords:

• Convective heat conditions
• Joule dissipation
• porous medium
• ternary nanofluid
• thermal radiation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.