THE MODIFIED DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORM METHOD FOR SOLVING OFF-CENTERED STAGNATION FLOW TOWARD A ROTATING DISC

The similarity solution for the steady stagnation flow toward an off-centered rotating disc gives a system of nonlinear partial differential equations. These nonlinear differential equations are analytically solved by applying a newly developed method called DTM-Pade technique (the combination of the differential transform method (DTM) and the Pade approximation). This technique is extended to give solutions for nonlinear differential equations with boundary conditions at infinity. Graphical results are presented to investigate influence of the rotation ratio a on the radial velocity, azimuthal velocity, and the induced velocity. In order to show the effectiveness of the DTM-Pade technique, the results obtained from the DTM-Pade technique are compared with available solutions obtained using shooting method to generate the numerical solution. The obtained results demonstrate the reliability of the algorithm and the DTM-Pade technique is an attractive method in solving the systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.