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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 1 5B Solution by
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The divergence is , proving incompressibility. Use the stream function convention , . Integration of either component then givesThe streamlines are its level curves. Setting the irrelevant constant to zero, a nonzero level haswith for and for . Each curve rises to as from its side and approaches at large . The zero streamline is . Flow is downward everywhere, outward to the right when and outward to the left when ; on it is vertically downward.
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