Unsteady radiative-convective Casson hybrid nanofluid flow over an inclined disk with Cattaneo–Christov heat flux and entropy estimation

The current study investigates the three-dimensional radiative and convective Casson hybrid nanofluid flow and heat transfer with the Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model over an inclined spinning and extending disk subjected to an applied magnetic field. Additionally, the study considers the impacts of Joule’s heating and viscous dissipation. Mathematical modelling of the nanofluid flow problem containing Ag and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) nanoparticles with water as the base fluid in a Darcy medium is done using a cylindrical coordinate system. The simplified system of equations is subjected to the spectral quasilinearisation method (SQLM) approach for the graphical and tabular representations. Examining key parameters, such as magnetic field, Bejan number, angle of inclination, disk movement parameter and disk rotation reveals interesting results on velocity and temperature profiles. The research concludes that the Bejan number increases with higher values of temperature ratio, radiation and magnetic parameters, while it decreases with increasing Casson parameter and Brinkman number. Radial wall friction decreases with improved magnetic field, temperature ratio, stretching and porosity parameters, but tangential wall friction increases. The present results are compared with the one already existing in literature to validate the numerical scheme and the results are found to agree well with the previously published work. The application of hybrid nanofluid flow over rotating and stretching disks is widespread in various fields, including rotating machinery, electronic devices, patient treatment instruments, crystal growth method, etc.