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Past exam of the perturbation methods and applied complex variables course of the University of Oxford 2008 B 6 i Solution by
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The lower wall has streamfunction zero. The streamline through the lip and along the upper fluid free boundary has streamfunction equal to the downstream volumetric flow rate, namely because the downstream speed is one and its depth is . The complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow therefore fillsThe chosen velocity potential origin gives . The remote reservoir endpoints have velocity potential tending to ; the downstream endpoints have velocity potential tending to .
Put . On the floor its values run from zero to one along the positive real axis. Above the plate the flow goes left toward the lip, so the plate velocities run along the negative real axis from zero at to at . On the fluid free boundary Bernoulli's equation and its constant pressure give . Its downward velocity has , hence . Consequently the hodograph plane domain isthe upper unit semicircle. Its marked boundary values are , , and .
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