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Abstract In this article mixed convection flow of nanofluid near a vertical wall is studied for cases of active and passive control. Flow is governed by nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), which are transformed into nonlinear ODEs by using similarity transformations. Nonlinear system of equations is solved via two different techniques which are: Modified Chebyshev wavelets scheme and Finite different method. The impact of emerging parameters including free parameter "A" on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles is plotted. Some values of the physical parameters against the active and passive controls for streamlines are calculated. Tables for values of A, components of skin friction, heat flux and mass flux against different parameters are also given. Streamlines are also plotted to predict the flow patterns at various locations inside flow. In this study we found that velocity of flow has same behavior in both active and passive controls, however, temperature and concentration profiles are more sensitive to the passive control.