ABSTRACT The central aim of this research article is to demonstrate the combined effects of thermo‐solutal stratification and magnetic body force on the flow, heat and mass transport characteristics features of Maxwell nanofluid flow about a stretching surface under the influence of velocity slip conditions. A non‐uniform heat source/sink effect and Buongiorno's nanofluid model are considered in the governing equations to accurately describe the thermal and fluid flow properties. However, nanofluid flows are crucial in heat transfer, particularly in microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, and thermal management systems. Further, nanofluids are effectively deployed to enhance the cooling efficiency in the domestic refrigerators, heat exchangers, and machining processes. However, in particular, the boundary layer flow of Maxwell fluid about a stretching sheet has plenty of real‐world applications especially in metallurgy industries, plastic sheet formation, glass blowing, polymer sheet extrusion, hot rolling, fibre spinning, rubber sheets, crystal growing and etc. The produced non‐linear coupled steady‐state partial differential equations are converted into non‐linear ordinary differential equations through suitable similarity transformations, which makes boundary layer equations more intuitive, and preserving flow behaviour while making them easier to solve. The study utilizes the bvp4c Matlab function to solve the produced complex equations and ensuring the accurate and effective numerical solutions. The heat and mass transport rates with various flow profiles within the boundary layer regime are analyzed graphically for the different set of physical parametric values such as 0.0 0.11.00.10.0,0.1 The analysis shows a decreasing trend in velocity profile with increase in velocity slip parameter values. The temperature field is inreased and the velocity profile decreased with rising Maxwell fluid parameter. Rising magnetic parameter, enhanced the temperature and concentration profiles and decreased the velocity field. Increasing Eckert number and non‐uniform heat source/sink boost‐up the thermal profile. A comparison of the current solutions with existing results showed the good agreement. In conclusion, it is observed that, the present similarity solutions are remarkably matching with the former results published in the literature and this validation confirms the accuracy and guarantee of the reported similarity solutions and the deployed bvp4c technique.
Basha et al. (Wed,) studied this question.