Significance of heat transfer for second-grade fuzzy hybrid nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking Riga wedge

This investigation presents the fuzzy nanoparticle volume fraction on heat transfer of second-grade hybrid Al2O3 +Cu/EO nanofluid over a stretching/shrinking Riga wedge under the contribution of heat source, stagnation point, and nonlinear thermal radiation. Also, this inquiry includes flow simulations using modified Hartmann number, boundary wall slip and heat convective boundary condition. Engine oil is used as the host fluid and two distinct nanomaterials ( Cu and Al2O3) are used as nanoparticles. The associated nonlinear governing PDEs are intended to be reduced into ODEs using suitable transformations. After that `bvp4c,' a MATLAB technique is used to compute the solution of said problem. For validation, the current findings are consistent with those previously published. The temperature of the hybrid nanofluid rises significantly more quickly than the temperature of the second-grade fluid, for larger values of the wedge angle parameter, the volume percentage of nanomaterials. For improvements to the wedge angle and Hartmann parameter, the skin friction factor improves. Also, for the comparison of nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids through membership function (MF), the nanoparticle volume fraction is taken as a triangular fuzzy number (TFN) in this work. Membership function and sigma-cut are controlled TFN which ranges from 0 to 1. According to the fuzzy analysis, the hybrid nanofluid gives a more heat transfer rate as compared to nanofluids. Heat transfer and boundary layer flow at wedges have recently received a lot of attention due to several metallurgical and engineering physical applications such as continuous casting, metal extrusion, wire drawing, plastic, hot rolling, crystal growing, fibreglass and paper manufacturing.

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This investigation explores the influence of fuzzy nanoparticle volume fraction on heat transfer of second-grade hybrid Al2O3 +Cu/EO nanofluid over a stretching/shrinking Riga wedge. Flow simulations are conducted using modified Hartmann number, boundary wall slip and heat convective boundary condition. The findings show that the hybrid nanofluid exhibits a higher heat transfer rate compared to nanofluids.