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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 1 5D ii Solution by
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Here both the divergence and vorticity vanish:The flow is incompressible and irrotational. With and ,The streamlines are the level sets . To determine the arrows, put and . A particle satisfies , . Thus the separatrix approaches the stagnation point at the origin, whereas leaves it; the other streamlines are hyperbolas following those asymptotes. The origin itself is a stationary particle.
Streamlines and directions for the incompressible irrotational flow
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