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This study is concerned with the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) rotating boundary layer flow of a viscous fluid caused by the shrinking surface. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed for the analytic solution. The similarity transformations have been used for reducing the partial differential equations into a system of two coupled ordinary differential equations. The series solution of the obtained system is developed and convergence of the results are explicitly given. The effects of the parameters M, s and λ on the velocity fields are presented graphically and discussed. It is worth mentioning here that for the shrinking surface the stable and convergent solutions are possible only for MHD flows.
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Sajid, M., Javed, T. & Hayat, T. MHD rotating flow of a viscous fluid over a shrinking surface. Nonlinear Dyn 51, 259–265 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-007-9208-3
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