The prime concern of the current findings includes the effect of viscous dissipation and nonlinear thermal radiation on the study of ferrofluid flow and heat transfer past a porous rotating disk. The time‐independent flow of incompressible ferrofluid is modeled for the considered geometry, and via similarity transformations, the given system is converted to a dimensionless system of the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Here, the findings are explored computationally with help of Maple software. The study exhibits the effect of the involved emerging parameters: the interaction parameter
B $B$, Prandtl number
P
r $Pr$, rotation parameter
R $R$, radiation parameter
Q
r $Qr$, Eckert number
E
c $Ec$, and these are discussed graphically. Moreover, the numerical values of heat transfer rate and skin frictions are also presented in tabular form. From the perspective of numerical findings, it is perceived that the radial flow is dominant when we increase the rotation of the disk. Furthermore, the magnitude of magnetic‐fluid temperature is enhanced with the surge in the magnetic field, viscous dissipation, and thermal radiation mechanism. Finally, the current research can successfully fill a gap in the existing literature.