Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-fluids-and-waves-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/1/b/i/solution

Use for the complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow, so its complex velocity is . The incident uniform flow and line source have
The coefficient of the complex logarithm is one because a line source of strength has complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow , and here . Applying the Milne-Thomson circle theorem to the unit circle gives
Since , locally consistent branches of the complex logarithm give
Changes of branch only alter the constant in a local expression; is single valued away from its singularities. The added terms represent a two-dimensional potential doublet at the origin, an image line source at , and a compensating line sink at the origin. The image line source and line sink have equal and opposite strengths, so no net volume flux enters the cylinder.
On , the Milne-Thomson circle theorem makes up to a constant. Consequently the streamfunction is constant there, establishing the no-penetration boundary condition. All line source strengths are real, and the two-dimensional potential doublet has zero circulation, so the circulation around the cylinder is zero. There is no additional line vortex term.

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