non - newtonian fluids are the most widely occurring fluids in industry and engineering and its governing equations are highly nonlinear as compared to the navier - stokes equation . non - newtonian fluids are complex in nature because their rheological properties are involved as  parameters  in the constitutive equation . such fluids can not be characterized by the single expression because of its diverse characteristics . in spite of its complex nature , several researchers worked for this fluid and studied the non - newtonian fluid flow characteristics on the various geometrical configurations . eringen [ 13 ] presented the theory of non - newtonian fluid which is completely different from the other non - newtonian fluids because of its microscopic properties like microrotational and the rotational inertia . main advantage of using micropolar fluid model to study the fluid flow in comparison with other classes of non - newtonian fluids is that it takes care of the rotation of fluid particles by means of an independent kinematic vector called the microrotation vector . these are very important for the analysis of flow characteristics of micropolar fluid like colloidal suspension , liquid crystals , fluids with additives , suspension solutions , animal blood , inkjet and printing , microfluidics , geological flows in the earth mantle , homodynamic liquid crystals , additive suspensions , and many others . it is difficult to obtain the solution of the governing equations for the micropolar fluid as they are highly nonlinear in nature . a lot of work [ 1 , 413 ] has been carried out regarding the analytical solution for the flow of non - newtonian fluids in cases where the involved equations have been linearized and in cases where partial differential equations have been reduced to ordinary differential equations . mhd boundary layer problems are of great importance in understanding a variety of geophysical , astrophysical , and engineering phenomena like the geophysical phenomena that occur at the core - mantle interface of the earth . the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid between two parallel plates rotating noncoaxially but with the same angular velocity was studied by berker . coirier   analysed the flow due to a disk and a fluid at infinity which is rotating noncoaxially at slightly different angular velocity . abbott and walters   studied the hydrodynamic flow between two disks , rotating with the same angular velocity about noncoincident axes . mohanty   investigated the magnetohydrodynamic flow between two disks , rotating with the same angular velocity about two different axes neglecting the induced magnetic field . other extensions of this type of flow to an oldroyd - b fluid were studied by rajagopal   and in case of electrically conducting oldroyd - b fluid by ersoy . rao and kasiviswanathan   considered the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between two eccentric rotating disks for unsteady cases . lai et al .   discussed the three - dimensional flow between two parallel plates which are rotating about a common axis or about distinct axes . knight   investigated the inertia effects of the non - newtonian flow between eccentric disks rotating at different speeds . [ 2528 ] have studied the noncoaxial rotations of two porous disks or the rotations of porous disk and a fluid at infinity under different environments . recently , guria et al .   have discussed the mhd squeezing flow of a micropolar fluid between parallel disks . they derived similarity solutions by homotopy analysis method and compared them with the solutions obtained by homotopy perturbation method . guria et al .   have discussed an unsteady mhd flow between two eccentric rotating disks . hence , in the view of above literature survey , the objective of the present paper is to study the magnetohydrodynamic flow of the micropolar fluid between eccentrically placed rotating disks . this study has been carried out to show the effects of the hartmann number and micropolar parameter on the velocity and microrotation parameter . capriz   and mariano   defined multifield continua by including some additional measures of strain and stress in the constitutive relation of a continuous model ( i.e. , by including scaling effect ) . these continua are the continua with any kind of local microstructure and represent an extension of the continua with kinematical microstructures defined in classical work . the classical continuum mechanics are augmented with additional equations that account for conservation of microinertia moments and balance of first stress moments that arises due to consideration of the microstructure in a material . when the scaling effect is negligible , the classical and the micropolar fluid model coincide . this micropolar model and its field equation is introduced by chen et al .   and eringen [ 1 , 2 ] are 
 ( 1)t+div(v)=0,dvdt=fp+n(+)v+(+2+)(divv),jdndt=i2n+nn+(++)(divn ) , 
 where  is the density , v- is the velocity field , n- is the microrotation field , j- is the gyration parameter , f is the body forces per unit mass , i is the microrotation driving forces per unit mass , p is the hydrostatical pressure ,  is the classical viscosity coefficient ,  and  are the vortex viscosity coefficients , and  ,  , and  are gyroviscosity coefficients satisfying the following inequalities : 
 ( 2)3++0 ,  2+0 ,  3+2+0,mmmmmmmmiiiiiiimiimim|| ,  0 ,  0 . the constitutive equations for the stress tensor -ij and couple stress tensor  m - ij are expressed by following equations , respectively , as : 
 ( 3)ij=(p+divv)ij+(2+)dij+ijm(n),mij=(divv)ij+i , j+j , i , 
 where dij denote the rate of strain components and n and  are the components of microrotation vector and vorticity vector , respectively , and ij is the kronecker delta . consider the viscous incompressible fluid flowing through the space between the noncoaxial disks . in a cartesian coordinate system , let us consider a rotation of eccentrically placed disks in xy plane rotating at a constant rate of  with z axis perpendicular to the plane of disks . figure 1 describes the geometry of the problem showing that the upper disk is placed at ( 0 , l , h ) and the lower disk is placed at ( 0 , l , h ) . a uniform magnetic field of the strength bo is applied in the normal direction to the disk . we assume that the induced magnetic field is negligible in comparison to the applied magnetic field . the above equations ( ( 1)(3 ) ) can be rewritten for an incompressible steady micropolar fluid in the presence of mhd ( neglecting the body forces and couple terms ) through the space between two noncoaxial disks and takes the form as follows : 
 ( 4)v=0,(5)0=p+(+)2v+n+jb,(6)0=(++)(n)(n)+n2n,(7)j=(e+vb),(8)e=0 , 
 where v- , n- , and b- represent the velocity vector , micromotion vector , and the magnetic field vector , respectively , e- is the electric field vector , j- is the current density , j is the microinertia per unit mass ,  is the angular velocity , and  is the fluid density for the considered problem . furthermore ,  ,  ,   ,  , and  satisfy the following conditions : 
 ( 9)2+0 ,  0,3++0 ,  || . we will assume that the magnetic reynolds number for the flow is small so that the induced magnetic field can be neglected . this assumption is justified since the magnetic reynolds number is generally small for partially ionized gases . if ( bx , by , bz ) are the components of the magnetic field vector b- , the solenoidal relation b-=0 gives bz = constant = b0 , everywhere in the fluid . further , the equation of the conservation of the charge j-=0 gives jz = constant , where ( jx , jy , jz ) are the components of the current density j- . this constant is zero since jz = constant at the disk which is electrically nonconducting . using ( 7 ) , since the induced magnetic field is neglected , maxwell 's equation ( 8) and ( 10 ) gives ex/z = 0 and ey/z = 0 . let u , v , and w are the components of the velocity v- and n1 , n2 , and n3 are the components of the micropolar rotation vector n- ; then the equation of motion for the steady flow can be written as 
 ( 11)uux+vuy=1p  + ( +)[2ux2+2uy2]+nxb02u,uvx+vvy=1p  + ( +)[2vx2+2vy2]+nyb02v. 
 angular momentum equation can be written as 
 ( 12)unx+vny=(j)[2nx2+2ny2]j(2nvx+uy ) , 
 where j = h and  = (  + ( /2))j in which  is the dynamic viscosity ,  is vortex viscosity , and  = z / h . to nondimensionalize the governing equation , the above geometry of the problem suggests taking the form for the velocity and the microrotation vector as 
 ( 13)u=y+f(z ) ,  v=x+g(z),w=0 ,  n = hg(z ) . the boundary conditions for the problem can take the following form : 
 ( 14)u=(yl ) ,  v=x ,  w=0 ,  g=nuziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiat  z = h , u=(y+l ) ,  v=x ,  w=0 ,  g=nuzmiiiiiiiiiiii.mat  z=h , 
 where n is the constant defined by 0  n  1 . here , n = 0 depicts the situation when microelements at the surface of disks are unable to rotate . this is also known as strong concentration of the microelements , whereas n = 0.5 depicts the situation of weak concentration of microelement at the surface of disks . for  n = 1 , one can have turbulent boundary layer flow . invoking the above transformation ( 13 ) in ( 11 ) and ( 12 ) , we have 
 ( 15 )  0=1px+(+)fb02(fy)+()nx+(g+x),(16 )  0=1py+(+)gb02(gx)+()ny+(fy),(17 )  0=(jh)g(2kj)(hg ) . 
 and eliminating the pressure from ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) , we can have an ordinary differential equation of the form 
 ( 18)(1+k)f()+(m2+ire2)f()=0,g()2kg()=2k , 
 where f/l = ( f + ig)/l , the hartmann number m = b0h/ , the reynolds number re = h/ , and the micropolar parameter k = /. the boundary conditions ( 14 ) take the following form : 
 ( 19)f=l ,  g=nf(1 )  at  =1,f=l ,  g = nf(1 )  at  =1 . 
 solving the above differential equations ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) with the boundary conditions ( 19 ) , we can have a solution of the form 
 ( 20 )  f()=ces+ces ,  g()=1+ce2k+ce2k , 
 where 
 ( 21 )  c=l[es+es][e2se2s ] ,  c=l[es+es][e2se2s ] ,  c = n[e2kf(1)+e2kf(1)]+[e2ke2k][1e42k][nf(1)+1]e2k ,  c=n[e2kf(1)+e2kf(1)][e2ke2k][e22ke22k ] . the solution ( 16 ) can be rewritten as 
 ( 22)f()l = sinh[(+1)(+i)]+sinh[(1)(+i)]sinh[2(+i ) ] , 
 where =[(m2m4+re4)/2(1+k)]1/2 , =[(-m2m4+re4)/2(1+k)]1/2 , and s=(m2+ire2)/1+k . for no microrotation , that is , for n = 0 , the constants c , c are 
 ( 23)c=[e2ke2k][1e42k]e2k , c=[e2ke2k][e22ke22k ] . in this section we have discussed the effect of vital parameters like the hartmann numbers and the reynolds numbers on the dimensionless velocities and the micromotion using mathematica software . figure 2 explains the behavior of primary velocity f( ) with the hartmann number and micropolar parameter . it is observed that , with the increase of the hartmann number m , the primary velocity f( ) decreases towards the upper disk and increases towards the lower disk . this accelerating and retarding effect on primary velocity f( ) is due to the lorentz force . it has a more pronounced variation near the disks . with the increase of micropolar parameter k , the primary velocity f( ) it has pronounced variations near the disks representing that the micropolar parameter k has retarding influence on the magnitude of the primary velocity in the vicinity of the lower disk and accelerates the primary velocity near the upper disk . it is observed that the primary velocity near to the disk on the right side of the axis decreases with the increase of the reynolds number whereas the nature reverses on the left side of the axis . this claims the fact that re is more influential in the vicinity of disks as compared to the core region . near to the upper disk , for the higher value of the reynolds number re = 10 , there is a flow reversal in the region 0.5 0.8 for the primary flow , whereas near to the lower disk , for the lower value of the reynolds number re = 1 , there is a flow reversal in the region 0.5    0.8 for the primary flow . for the region 0.5 figure 4 shows the influence of micropolar parameter k and a hartmann number m on secondary velocity g( ) . it is observed that the flow near to the disk on the right side of an axis increases with the increase of k and m whereas the nature of the secondary velocity reverses on the left side of the axis . with the increase of the hartmann number m , flow in the core region it reveals that , with the increase of the reynolds number , the secondary velocity increases . for the low reynolds number re = 1 , there is a flow reversal in the region 0.2    1 , and for the region 0.0    0.2 , flow appears to be uniform . figure 6 shows the variation of micromotion of fluid with the reynolds number ( re ) and the hartmann number ( m ) . it has been observed that the micromotion of the fluid near to the disk on the right side of the axis increases with the decrease of the reynolds number where as the nature of the micromotion of the fluid reverses on the left side of the axis . the behavior of the reynolds number on the micromotion of the fluid is same as that of the hartmann number ( m ) . it has been observed from the figure 7 that an increase in micropolar parameter k results in slowing down of micromotion of fluid . it is found that the primary velocity has an accelerating and the retarding effect due to the lorentz force . micropolar parameter k has retarding influence on the magnitude of the primary velocity in the vicinity of the lower disk and accelerates the primary velocity near the upper disk . the reynolds number is more influential in the vicinity of disks as compared to the core region . the behavior of the reynolds number on the micromotion of the fluid is same as that of the hartmann number ( m ) . it has been observed that an increase in micropolar parameter k results in slowing down of micromotion of fluid .
this analytical investigation examines the magnetohydrodynamic flow problem of an incompressible micropolar fluid between the two eccentrically placed disks . employing suitable transformations , the flow governing partial differential equations 
 is reduced to ordinary differential equations . 
 an exact solution representing the different flow characteristic of micropolar fluid has been derived by solving the ordinary differential equations . 
 analysis of the flow characteristics of the micropolar fluid has been done graphically by varying the reynolds number and the hartmann number . 
 this analysis has been carried out for the weak and strong interactions .