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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2009 K 1 Solution by
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For incompressible planar flow define the streamfunction by , . A velocity potential satisfies , when the flow is irrotational; the differential condition is . The complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow is , with derivative .
For , its derivative is . This gives outward radial velocity , whose flux across a circle is . It is therefore the stated line source.
Superposition givesFor positive , the stagnation points areThey lie on the real axis, one upstream of the source and the other downstream of the sink. Streamlines are level sets of . The dividing streamline passes through both stagnation points and forms a Rankine oval enclosing the source and sink; outside, streamlines tend to uniform horizontal flow.
A representative source-sink pair in a uniform stream, with two stagnation points and a dividing Rankine oval
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