 Stagnation point (source code)

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= Stagnation point
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A stagnation point of a fluid flow is a point at which the <velocity field> vanishes. For a two-dimensional <streamfunction in polar coordinates>[streamfunction], it is a critical point satisfying both first spatial derivatives of the streamfunction equal to zero.

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