therapeutic applications of darcy-forchheimer hybrid nanofluid flow and mass transfer over a stretching sheet

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the therapeutic applicationsof darcy-forchheimer flow and mass transfer of hybrid nanofluid (hnf)over a stretching sheet by the influence of magnetic field and chemicalreaction. the hnf is the conglomeration of two types of nanoparticles (nps)namely copper (metal) and alumina (metallic oxide) with water as regularfluid. copper nps act as an anti-biotic, anti-microbial, and anti-fungal agentwhereas alumina nps has wide range of biomedical applications includingcancer therapy, biosensing, and immunotherapy etc. thus, the present modelis useful because it may be used to a variety of fields, including biomedicine,microelectronics, biology, and industrial production processes. byintroducing the similarity transformations, the governing partial differentialequations (pdes) are transformed into a set of non-linear ordinarydifferential equations (odes) and then solved numerically with matlabbvp4c code by varying numerous operating physical parameters. it is foundthat higher values of magnetic, forchheimer and slip parameters decrease thevelocity profiles. slip parameter and chemical reaction parameter hasopposite effect on concentration profile. volume fractions of nps and slipparameter have opposite effects on skin friction coefficient and sherwoodnumber.