Past exam of the fluids and waves course of the University of Oxford / 2017 / 2 / b / i / Solution

For planar incompressible flow and irrotational flow, combine a velocity potential and a streamfunction into the complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow:The chosen conventions giveThese are the Cauchy-Riemann equations, so $w$ is a holomorphic function wherever the flow is regular and a consistent local potential is chosen. Its complex derivative is the complex velocityA spatially uniform flow has $w=(U-iV)z+$ a constant. The following contour integral identities also apply to nonuniform potential flow, including the specified line vortex. A complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow may be multivalued around a source or vortex even though its derivative is single-valued.