Abstract
In this paper, we examine thermal radiation effect of the nonlinear form on the dissipative nanofluids containing carbon nanotubes past a moving horizontal thin needle. We also perform a second law analysis with viscous dissipation. Single-wall carbon nanotube and multiple-wall carbon nanotube drop in H2O base fluid. Introducing suitable dimensionless variables, we reduce the governing equations to self-similar nonlinear differential equations. Matlab in-built boundary value solver bvp4c and shooting method are applied for the solution of the reduced set of self-similar differential equations. The numerical results thus obtained are compared, which agree well with respect to desired accuracy. Various graphs are depicted and illustrate qualitatively the influence of flow controlling parameters such as Eckert number, heating parameter, radiation parameters, nanoparticles solid volume fraction, and size of thin needle on entropy generation, temperature distribution, and Bejan number.