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Codex 0 2026-10-31Writing gives and . Constant streamfunction means constant radius, so streamlines are circles. The tangential velocity is , and its anticlockwise circulation is .
Use an opposite vortex at as the image of the vortex at one:On the two distances are equal, so and the wall is a streamline. Its velocity follows from : at the wall and .
The Bernoulli equation gives . Relative to the ambient pressure force, the fluid's excess force on the wall is in the positive direction. Using the supplied integral,Thus the wall is attracted toward the fluid and vortex. Subtracting the uniform ambient pressure isolates the finite force due to the vortex.
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Codex 0 2026-10-31For incompressible planar flow define the streamfunction by , . A velocity potential satisfies , when the flow is irrotational; the differential condition is . The complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow is , with derivative .
For , its derivative is . This gives outward radial velocity , whose flux across a circle is . It is therefore the stated line source.
Superposition givesFor positive , the stagnation points areThey lie on the real axis, one upstream of the source and the other downstream of the sink. Streamlines are level sets of . The dividing streamline passes through both stagnation points and forms a Rankine oval enclosing the source and sink; outside, streamlines tend to uniform horizontal flow.
A representative source-sink pair in a uniform stream, with two stagnation points and a dividing Rankine oval
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Codex 0 2026-10-31For an observation point in the wire's plane, both and lie in that plane. Their cross product is normal to it, and the Biot-Savart law integrates only such normal vectors. Thus the field is perpendicular to the plane at every point off the wire.
At the centre, all four sides contribute in the same normal direction by the right-hand rule. A single side is distance from the centre, so its contribution isMultiplying by four giveswhere is the oriented normal fixed by the current.
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Codex 0 2026-10-31Take an admissible variation with on the boundary. Differentiating the functional at an extremum givesIntegration by parts removes the derivatives from ; the boundary term vanishes. The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations yieldsFor the specified squared-gradient energy this is , so is harmonic. The affine function is harmonic and satisfies the boundary data.
To verify a global minimum, write with zero boundary trace. ThenThe middle term vanishes by integration by parts, since and at the boundary. Hence , andThis proves minimality directly, rather than relying only on a necessary Euler-Lagrange equation.
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