Solution

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At an interior stagnation point, . The first equation is
Since inside the fluid, . Also
On the preceding locus the bracket is nonzero, so . Therefore
For , in the interior, and its nested nonzero level curves are closed recirculating streamlines around this unique stagnation point.
Figure 1.
Streamlines around two touching cylinders
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