Radiative Flow of Nanofluid Over Backward/Forward‐Moving Surface
K. Thanesh Kumar, Anitha Deevi Reddy, Srinivas Remidi, Prabhakara Reddy Deevi Reddy, Chetansinh R. Vaghela, Ripendeep SinghABSTRACT
The current study investigates the front and rear stagnation point flow (SPF) and heat transfer of a milk‐based hybrid nanofluid (HNF) comprising Ag and ZnO nanoparticles over a stretching surface embedded in a porous medium under heat source/sink and nonlinear thermal radiation effects. The Taguchi technique is applied to study the temperature distribution. The results demonstrate that the optimal combination of configurations produced the greatest temperature profile of 0.928 and 0.9952 for the front and rear SPF cases, respectively. The chosen model shows a good level of concordance with the real data, with R 2 values of 92.34% and 90.73%, respectively, and adjusted R 2 values of 91.70% and 88.63%. Significant physical insights into heat transfer and flow in HNF systems are provided by the findings, which are essential to improve thermal engineering applications.