MHD Casson ternary hybrid nanofluid flow through a vertical porous plate with thermal radiation: A finite difference approach

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Abstract This entire study aims to investigate the impacts of linear thermal radiation and MHD Casson ternary hybrid nanofluid flows over a vertical porous plate for comparison of nanofluid, hybrid, and tri‐hybrid nanofluids with Newtonian and non‐Newtonian fluids. We used a ternary hybrid nanofluid, Blood contains three types of oxides and metals: spherical ferric oxide ( Fe3O4 ), platelet‐shaped zinc ( Zn ), and cylindrically‐shaped gold ( Au ) nanoparticles. The coupled nonlinear dual partial differential equations (PDEs) are turned into PDEs using nondimensional quantities. The Finite Difference Method (FDM) and the Perturbation Method are then used to solve the PDEs. The impacts of different parameters on temperature, velocity, Nusselt number, and Skin friction profiles have been discussed. The increase in viscosity occurs because an increase in Gr also causes an increase in the velocity field for nanofluid, hybrid, and tri‐hybrid nanofluids. A tri‐hybrid nanofluids performs better among the three, such as nanofluid, hybrids and tri‐hybrid nanofluids. As the volume fractions ( Fe3O4 ) increase, the temperature increase for both Newtonian and non‐Newtonian fluids. The increase in temperature is due to the thermal conductivity of nanoparticles, which is enhanced by growth estimates of the nanoparticle volume fraction. The high temperature of the fluid is observed for large estimates of nanoparticle volume fraction. An increase gold ( Au ) also increases the temperature for shapes (cylinder, platelet, and spherical). A spherical shape performs better among the three, such as cylinder, platelet, and spherical. In this model, biomedical applications such as antiviral and therapeutic, treatment of the COVID‐19 virus, cancer treatment, and anticancer medication delivery systems.