Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
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ISBN: 9781259129919
Author: John D. Anderson Jr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.10P
Consider a flow field in polar coordinates, where the stream function is given as
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