Paper 1, Section I, B

Fluid Dynamics | Part IB, 2010

A planar solenoidal velocity field has the velocity potential

ϕ(x,y,t)=xet+yet\phi(x, y, t)=x e^{-t}+y e^{t}

Find and sketch (i) the streamlines at t=0t=0; (ii) the pathline that passes through the origin at t=0t=0; (iii) the locus at t=0t=0 of points that pass through the origin at earlier times (streakline).

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