Abstract
Recent advancements in nanotechnology research have introduced hybrid nanofluids which are sophisticated classes of fluids with enhanced thermal properties that outper-form conventional nanofluids. The objective of current communication is to illustrate the comparative mathematical model of MHD hybrid nanofluid and mono-nanofluid flows with heat flux condition through a stretching sheet. Impact of melting phenomenon, heat generation/absorption and natural convection is considered. The thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and temperature-dependent viscosity are also considered. In current model, two different nanoparticles namely zinc oxide (ZnO)and zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) are dispersed in kerosene oil (C10H22) base fluid to form a hybrid nanofluid. Similarity transformations are utilized to renovate the governing PDEs structure system into ordinary ones. The numerical computations of current mathematical model are computed through bvp4c built-in function in MATLAB with shooting scheme. The fluctuations of velocity and temperature distributions are analyzed with physical impacts for different flow parame-ters. It is visualized that the growing amount of convection parameter corresponds to increment in velocity profile. The velocity of hybrid nanofluid reduces as the magnetic parameter increases. It is analyzed that the thermal field of hybrid nanofluid is an increasing function of thermal radiation parameter. Furthermore, the thermal profile is a reducing function of melting and Prandtl numbers. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).