1. Introduction
The morphology of nanomaterials has proved effective in influencing the actions of nanomaterials under optical waves and photons. Similarly, the particle form influences nanoparticle (NP) movement in the circulatory system, immunological responses, and activity within internalized cells. Furthermore, the asymmetry of NPs induces particle chipping and rounding along the underflow walls of blood vessels. It also causes NP penetration and distribution in tumors and tissues. Furthermore, due to a diversity of reactions with the cell surface, NPs of diverse sizes and shapes might accumulate differently inside the same cell. Non-spherical NPs also prefer to stay in the blood as compared to spherical ones, as indicated by their higher blood circulation duration. The absorption efficiency of rod-shaped NPs is also superior to that of cubical, cylindrical, and spherical ones. Spherical NPs can be processed quickly after internalization, have acute margination effects, and have quicker blood circulation than other shapes. However, rod-shaped NPs show a comparatively slower processing time after internalization and can enter solid-tissue tumors with comparative ease, as discussed by Qureshi et al. [
1]. Zeeshan et al. [
2] investigated the various forms of NPs floating across a spinning disk on combined convection past steady flow. For a nanofluid (
Nfd), the base fluid is known to be copper NPs of disk, cylindrical, and spherical types of varying sizes and water. Haq et al. [
3] studied the completely formed
Nfd pressing flux between parallel disks. They found three separate forms of condensed NPs in the base fluid. These NPs were Magnetite
, Mn–Zn ferrite (Mn–Zn
), and cobalt ferrite (Co
). The movement and heat transfer of copper NPs embedded in the base fluid were studied by Khan et al. [
4]. They included water as a liquid basis. They found a template for the thermal conductivity of
Nfds by Hamilton and Crosser. The research is known to be done in three types of NPs, namely, platelet-, cylinder-, and brick-shaped particles. By including a mathematical decrease at the mainline level, Ashraf et al. [
5] investigated computer modeling of continuous natural convection flow in the presence of a strong magnetic field and a weak magnetic quantity of Prandtl. The findings regarding the mathematical diffusion coefficient, related magnetic field, and buoyant body energy were used in the momentum equation to generate a series of boundary layer equations before moving on to the computer simulation.
It is evident from the literature that unified transfer of heat and mass, from diverse geometries, has massive engineering and geophysical implications, including in geothermal reservoirs, drying of porous solids, enhanced oil recovery, thermal insulation, and underground species transport. Heat and mass transfer are relevant in the many varieties of thermodynamic devices, such as pumps, compressors, turbines, nozzles, diffusers, refrigeration systems, air conditioning systems, microwave ovens, conventional ovens, and coffee makers, as discussed by Qureshi et al. [
6]. This drew the attention of researchers towards such a combined process. Devi et al. [
7] analyzed the motion of an electrically conductive fluid that is affected by thermal radiation and is surrounded by an infinite rotating porous disk with heat and mass transfer. On the contrary, unsteady mixed convection of a hybrid nanofluid (
HNfd) due to a rotating disk was also observed. Accordingly, Hang Xu et al. [
8] presented a generalized homogenous flow model, explaining
HNfd as incorporating diversified versions of NPs, as a construct to model these issues. Moreover, Mabood et al. [
9] investigated the effect of the fraction volume on metallic or metallic-oxide NPs + H
2O, radiation, viscous dissipation, and chemical reaction, including magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) heat and mass transfer stagnation point flow. The flow over a revolving disk on
HNfd reveals the character of the Hall current, which was represented in another study by Acharya et al. [
10]. Acharya et al. [
11] studied the properties of heat and fluid movement in the form of thermophoretic transport; a numerical simulation was developed based on nonlinear paired partial differential equations respecting the conservation rules. A thermophoretic transport term is incorporated in the mass equation; hence, the influence of thermophoretic transport may be measured at various sphere locations. Hussain et al. [
12] developed this by keeping a porous disk on metallic NPs, which addressed many issues due to the convection of heat and mass transfer of an incompressible viscous
Nfd in a mathematical model. Das et al. [
13] mathematically investigated a couple of connecting disks with a magnetic field and slip effect squeezed by the flow of
Nfd. The equivalent disk on squeezed MHD flow of a
Nfd is affected by both velocity and temperature slip, as discussed by Mohyud-Din et al. [
14]. On a floating plane surface, Erickson et al. [
15] observed the permeable expansion ratio and the collective effect of heat and mass transfer. On the other hand, the regular thermal conduction boundary layer flow and the heat and mass exchange of
Nfd, which are influenced by several factors such as the size, shape, and kind of
Nfd, as well as the type and operating temperature of the base fluid, were observed by Zakari et al. [
16]. Turkyilmazoglu et al. [
17] developed fluid flow and heat transfer as the by-product of a disk, rotating both upward and downward, during uneven motion. It was also found that this upward and downward movement of the disk exerts a similar effect to permeability across the wall, albeit with identifiable differences.
Correspondingly, the role of magnetic orientation is monumental in affecting heat transport in
HNfd. Likewise, emerging technologies including biotechnology, electrical engineering, and electromechanics have a more positive role in the case of magnetic field influence. Transformers, generators, and electric motors are useful applications of magnetic fields. For thermally conductive fluid, certain investigators researched the issue of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow, heat, and mass transfer among different layer geometries. Temperature profile contraction was observed with increased merits of heat energy deposition under layer constraint when Mutuku et al. [
18] noticed an unsteady MHD boundary layer, temperature, and concentration profile of
Nf over a surface with dual deposition in the layers. Sudarsana Reddy et al. [
19,
20] analyzed the MHD physical thermal conduction boundary layer flow, heat, and mass transfer features of a pair of separated
Nfds, across a rotation disk and vertical cone, along with the chemical reaction. The free heat thermal conduction and mass transfer were measured in nanoliquid MHD flow through an irregular thickness across a slender elastic surface by Ashraf et al. [
21]. Lou et al. [
22] considered the micropolar dusty fluid with the dynamic effect of MHD rotating fluid. Several researchers have discussed heat and mass transfer and MHD boundary layer flow attributes across multiple geometries [
23,
24].
Choi [
25] coined the idea of
Nfds (the mixing of nanosized solid particles in base fluids) with higher thermal conductivity in comparison to the routine fluids available. Furthermore, the size of a
Nfd plays a pivotal role in bringing stability to it, with a size of less than 100 nm considered a stable size for
Nfd. Resultantly,
Nfd has a handful of practical utilities as well, including in industrial cooling, paper, biomedicine, chemical reactors, and many more. Recent research has started considering
HNfds (containing two or more NPs) in place of ordinary
Nfds because of their similar yet comparatively superior performance outcomes. Nimmagadda and Priyadharshini et al. [
26,
27] measured an emerging concept in technology-related work. The viscosity and heat energy conductivity of an Al
2O
3-Cu/H
2O
HNfd was calculated. Suresh et al. [
28] showed that with a solid volume fraction of Al
2O
3-Cu NPs, all parameters were increased. In the same way, Sarkar et al. [
29] brought the attention of researchers to the area of
HNfds. Moghadassi et al. [
30] studied the effects of Al
2O
3-H
2O
Nfd, along with the effects of Al
2O
3-Cu/H
2O
HNfd, showing that Al
2O
3-Cu/H
2O
HNfd had greater heat transfer. This was followed by the analytical and numerical investigation of
HNfd conducted by Huminic and Huminic et al. [
31]. Ashraf et al. [
32] investigated the effect of radiation on the continuous, viscous, and electrically conductive mixed-convection boundary layer movement of fluid over a semi-infinite porous longitudinally magnetized magnet with uniform sweat and a variable cross-cut magnetic field on the top.
In porous media, the presence of extensive fluid interaction surfaces can enhance the heat transmission effect. The porous medium alters the flow field conditions, thins the frontal layer, and typically has a higher conduction heat transfer coefficient than the fluid under study. Numerous technical applications, including polymeric, ceramic, and metallic foams, have made heat transmission in porous media a hot research area. For the past few decades, flow in porous medium has been the focus of active research. The effects of capillary forces and the kind of wettability of the medium on the displacement process were addressed in [
33,
34], which evaluated the process of imbibition in a porous medium under the influence of capillary forces in microgravity. The authors of [
35,
36,
37] proposed a non-stationary mathematical model of multiphase fluid flow and computationally modeled the removal of a viscous fluid from a porous material while accounting for capillary effects in a sample of a porous medium. The temperature and velocity profiles above condensed material were theoretically determined within the framework of boundary layer approximation under the assumption of fuel gasification and gas-phase chemicals reacting in a diffusion flame. Logvinov et al. [
38] investigated the removal of a viscous fluid from a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. Tyurenkova et al. [
39] studied the rate of material surface regression in turbulent and laminar flow regimes.
A review of the literature revealed to the authors that no research has been done on heat and mass transfer analysis of MHD incompressible hybrid nanofluid flow subject to two porous coaxial discs that are moving orthogonally. Thermal conductivity is most commonly described by form factors, and the viscosity model is developed as a hybrid model of thermophysical properties that depend on the size factors. These facts served as the impetus for the research herein, which was done to account for two distinct categories of nanomaterials and to depict a fully formed hybrid nanofluid that moves across porous disks in a strong magnetic field. The system was simplified to multiple related nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that regulate the flow of an electromagnetic hydrodynamic hybrid nanofluid between orthogonal porous disks. Numerical calculation was performed to solve the system of ordinary differential equations via Runge–Kutta shooting techniques with the help of MATLAB software.
2. Mathematical Formulation
In this paper, the single-phase approach was used to model the
HNfd because the single-phase model is more suitable for Newtonian fluid and its thermophysical properties based on the NP volume of the fraction. It is also called the experimental model [
40]. The detailed
HNfd thermophysical properties used in this paper are shown in
Table 1, and
Table 2 presents the thermophysical properties of the basic fluid and NPs. Due to their significant amount of essential porous structure, the Cu NPs exhibit very robust catalytic efficiency.
NPs are an insulating material, but ceramic material has rather good heat transparency. In a comparison of both NP types, the thermal conductivity of Cu NPs is relatively higher than that of
.
A two-dimensional Newtonian hybrid MHD nanofluid flow (
–Cu/water) was considered between the deformable porous disks with cylindrical coordinates (r,
θ, z); this was chosen as it can be proved as a most appropriate prototype for morphology analysis of heat and mass transfer. The fluid is incompressible, unsteady, isothermal, and laminar. The porous walls expand and contract up- and downward. The geometry was developed with significant modification as shown in
Figure 1. The channel walls can move up and down at time-dependent rate
with range 2
. The resulting magnetic field
is disregarded under the minimal Reynolds number supposition. Terms
,
,
, and
denote the temperature and concentration at the lower and upper permeable disks, correspondingly, with
>
and
. The laws of conservation of mass, momentum, energy, and concentration are expressed as follows [
43]:
where
is the intensity of the magnetic field,
denotes pressure,
denotes electrical conductivity,
denotes the temperature,
is the kinematic viscosity of
,
is the density of
,
is the thermal diffusivity of
, and
represents the diffusion coefficient of
. The initial boundary conditions for the lower and upper boundaries are:
Here, is the measure of partition penetrability, and the prime symbol denotes the derivative with respect to time t.
To continue the investigation, we provide the following set of transformation variables [
43].
The continuity Equations (1) and (5) were fulfilled using the similarity transformation. Consequently, Equations (1)–(5) were transformed into the dimensionless forms:
where α =
is the wall expansion ratio, Re =
is the permeable Reynolds number,
=
is the Schmidt number,
is the kinematic viscosity of hybrid nanofluid,
is the thermal diffusivity of hybrid nanofluid,
is the Prandtl number, and M =
is the magnetic parameter.
The dimensionless physical limitations listed below were considered:
Finally, Majdalani et al. [
44] set F =
Re, α is a constant,
=
, θ =
and
, which leads to
= 0,
= 0, and
. Thus, we have the following equations:
Quantities of engineering interest: Skin friction, the Nusselt number, and the Sherwood number are physical parameters that are crucial to the technical goal of modeling equipment at the nanoscale. All of these variables were estimated on both porous surfaces.
Skin friction coefficients: Skin friction coefficients for the lower and upper discs are represented by the variables
and
and are stated as
where
represents the shear stress at the lower and upper discs in the radial direction, and
stands for the local Reynolds number.
Nusselt numbers: The ratio of conductive to convective heat flow inside a fluid at a boundary is known as the Nusselt number (
). Fluid movement (advection) and diffusion are components of convection (conduction). A Nusselt number of 1 represents pure conduction as the mode of heat transfer. The analysis of the heat transfer rates (Nusselt numbers)
and
at the lower and upper discs is provided as
where heat flux is denoted by
, which follows as
Sherwood numbers: The proportion of convectional mass transfer to diffusional mass transfer is known as the Sherwood number. The following mathematical equations describe the mass transfer rates (Sherwood numbers)
and
at the lower and upper discs:
where
where
.
Numerical Solution Procedure: To obtain numerical solutions for the transformed ODEs (12)–(14) with suitable transformed boundary conditions (15), Runge–Kutta and the efficient “shooting method’’ approach were taken into consideration. With this approach, the necessary dimensionless ODEs were simply handled. The nonlinear particle differential problem was transformed into a highly nonlinear linked system of ordinary differential equations, forming Equations (12)–(14).
Here, we assume that
.
Putting values of
,
,
, and
in Equations (19)–(21), we obtain the final result as follows:
To solve the existing flow model, we used the RK technique with the addition of shooting methods. The following substitution is required to begin the process:
First, in Equations (22)–(24), we change the model in the following pattern:
The following system is obtained by using the substitution contained in Equation (25):
Consequently, the initial condition is:
The above system was then solved using mathematics and a suitable initial condition. Here, Runge–Kutta and the well-known accurate “shooting method” were taken into consideration. The required dimensionless ODEs can easily be tackled with this method. First of all, we obtained the initial condition by using the shooting method in such a way that boundary conditions were satisfied and achieved the desired level of accuracy.