title: Off-centered stagnation point flow of a couple stress fluid towards a rotating disk.
abstract: An investigation has been made to study the off-centered stagnation flow of a couple stress fluid over a rotating disk. The model developed for the governing problem in the form of partial differential equations has been converted to ordinary differential equations with the use of suitable similarity transformation. The analytical approximation has been made with the most promising analytical approach, homotopy analysis method (HAM). The convergence region of the obtained solution is determined and plotted. The effects of couple stress and nondimensional parameters have been observed on the flows of couple stress fluid. Also comparison has been made with the Newtonian fluid as the special case of considered problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Najeeb Alam
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Fatima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Riaz
mesh_terms: D057446:Hydrodynamics; D008962:Models, Theoretical