Significance of adding titanium dioxide nanoparticles to an existing distilled water conveying aluminum oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles: Scrutinization of chemical reactive ternary-hybrid nanofluid due to bioconvection on a convectively heated surface

• Main Authors: Animasaun, I.L (Author), Boora, N. (Author), Jayachandra Babu, M. (Author), Raju, C.S.K (Author), Revathi, G. (Author), Sajja, V.S (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Open Ltd 2022
• Subjects: Alumina; aluminum oxide; Aluminum oxide; bioconvection; Bioconvection; Buoyancy forces; convectively heated surface; Convectively heated surface; Distilled water; Flow of fluids; Heat radiation; Heated surfaces; High buoyancy force; higher buoyancy forces; Hybrid nanofluid; II-VI semiconductors; Nanofluidics; Nanomagnetics; Ordinary differential equations; Shear stress; Statistical mechanics; Ternary hybrid; ternary-hybrid nanofluid; Ternary-hybrid nanofluid; TiO2 nanoparticles; titanium dioxide; Titanium dioxide; Titanium dioxide nanoparticles; zinc oxide; Zinc oxide
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 With the emphasis on the properties of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and numerous applications of chemical reactive distilled water due to bioconvection in the industries, nothing is known about the significance of adding titanium dioxide nanoparticles to an existing distilled water conveying aluminum oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles when viscous dissipation, heat source, and higher buoyancy forces and thermal radiation are substantial. The governing partial differential equations that model the motion of both transport phenomena mentioned earlier were transformed into ordinary differential equations using appropriate similarity transmutations and solved with bvp4c (MATLAB built-in function). Multiple linear regression (i.e., a statistical tool used to explain outcomes related to engineering parameters of interest) was adopted for a deep scrutinization and exploration. The outcome of the analysis suggests that the thermal radiation parameter can be used to control the heat transferred via convection in the fluid flow. It is detected that the magnetic field parameter and volume fraction of nanoparticle parameters are useful to reduce the shear stress near the surface. The heat source ameliorates the fluid temperature, and the concentration of the fluid decreases with the rise in the chemical reaction parameter. Worthy to conclude that the Peclet and Schmidt number escalates the density number of motile microorganisms. © 2022 Gadamsetty Revathi et al., published by De Gruyter.