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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 3 18B i Solution by
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The rigid-rotation velocity field is , with spatially uniform . Its divergence is zero, since . It therefore satisfies the incompressible continuity equation. On the cylindrical wall, , so it has zero normal velocity; on either end cap its vertical component is zero. These are the impermeability boundary conditions for an inviscid flow. Tangential slip is permitted; a no-slip condition is not part of this inviscid model.
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