Solution

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The divergence is , proving incompressibility. Use the stream function convention , . Integration of either component then gives
The streamlines are its level curves. Setting the irrelevant constant to zero, a nonzero level has
with 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.
Figure 1.
Streamlines and flow direction for the exponential hyperbolic flow
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