Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Engineered Science, cilt.40, 2026 (Scopus)
This study examines the temperature dependent fluid properties of an Eyring-Prandtl model with a ternary hybrid nanofluid flowing over an infinite plate. Velocity and thermal slip boundary conditions, thermal radiation, and variable thermal conductivity are incorporated. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first investigation of the combined effects of velocity/thermal slip, temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity, and ternary hybrid (ZrO2-ZnO-NiZnFe2O4) nanoparticles in an unsteady Eyring-Prandtl fluid over an infinite plate using a finite difference method. The governing equations are formulated using the rheological properties of the EyringPrandtl fluid with three types of nanoparticles and transformed into a set of non-dimensional partial differential equations via similarity transformations. The resulting system, together with the associated boundary conditions, is solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme. The influence of the unsteadiness parameter, Reynolds number, slip parameters, and nanoparticle volume fraction on the velocity and temperature fields is examined. The results show that the velocity and temperature distributions are enhanced for higher values of the unsteadiness parameter. The fluid velocity decreases slightly for larger Reynolds numbers, whereas smaller Reynolds numbers have a more pronounced effect on both velocity and temperature, leading to a significant increase in the heat transfer rate. Variations of the reduced Nusselt number and skin-friction coefficient are presented for different values of the emerging parameters. The findings are relevant to thermal management in coating and polymer processing operations, cooling of electronic and microfluidic devices, and energy systems where non-Newtonian fluids with enhanced heat transfer characteristics are employed.