Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-perturbation-methods-and-applied-complex-variables-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2008/b/5/iii/a/solution

A uniform horizontal velocity potential in the upper -plane is a real constant times . Since , choose
up to an additive constant. Its complex velocity is
As this tends to one, giving physical velocity . As , and , giving zero velocity far down the channel. The imaginary part of is constant on the real -axis, so the physical boundary is a streamline and the impermeability condition holds. The usual complex velocity convention is .

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