7B

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/ib/paper-2/7b

For the linear planar flow with strain and rotation, , proving incompressibility. The Cartesian streamfunction convention gives , , and direct integration gives
up to an irrelevant additive constant. Along a streamline, . Since
the stated quadratic expression is constant along each streamline. The three cases below distinguish strain, rotation and their degenerate shear limit.

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