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Stokes flow between touching counter-rotating cylinders

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An inner cylinder of radius a centered at (0,a) and an outer cylinder of radius 2a centered at (0,2a) have polar boundaries r=2asinθ and r=4asinθ. If their angular velocities are Ω and −Ω/4, respectively, the no-slip Stokes flow between them has streamfunction
ψ=raΩsinθ​(r−2asinθ)(r−4asinθ).
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Its unique interior stagnation point is (x,y)=(0,22​a), and its nonzero streamlines are closed curves around that point.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / ii / Paper 1 / 39B / iii / Solution

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