The non-Newtonian liquid scheme is created to address the limitations of the classical (Newtonian) scheme in terms of accurately reflecting real-world fluid flow behavior in industrial applications and improving operational efficiency. The Reiner–Philippoff model, one of the many extant models, modeling non-Newtonian fluids, is of concern because it only captures a few features in some circumstances. Thus, this study aims to investigate the theoretical aspects of Cattaneo–Christov for heat diffusion fusion of Reiner–Philippoff liquid stream in the presence of Darcy–Forchheimer media. Furthermore, the procedure of heat transport is taken out in the occurrence of nonlinear heat radiative, viscous dissipation and Ohmic heating. The partial derivatives of nonlinear differential equations are changed into similarity equations of a certain form by using appropriate similarity transformations. Furthermore, the Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method with shooting approach is utilized to solve the dimensionless model. The influence of pertinent fluid flow parameters is illustrated graphically. The further engineering curiosity of a local Nusselt number is illustrated and analyzed. It is found that velocity curve is boosted with the augmenting scales of Reiner–Philippoff liquid parameter and Forchheimer number. Further, it is analyzed that increasing the thermal relaxation parameter and Eckert number reduces the heat transport rate at the surface.