Abstract
•Flow of thixotropic nanofluid is modeled.•Heat and mass transfer analysis are considered in presence of temperature and concentration stratifications.•Applied magnetic field is accounted.•Nanofluid model consists of Brownian motion and thermophoresis.
Here characteristics of double stratification in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow of thixotropic nanofluid in presence of mixed convection are reported. Heat generation/absorption, Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects are also present. Dimensional nonlinear equations are converted into dimensionless expressions by employing suitable transformations. Homotopic procedure is implemented to solve the governing dimensionless problems. The variations in dimensionless temperature and nanoparticle concentration profiles corresponding to multiple values of physical parameters are shown and analyzed through graphs. Numerical values of local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are tabulated and interpreted for several values of sundry parameters. It is found that thermal and concentration stratified parameters result in the reduction of temperature and concentration distributions respectively.