Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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ISBN: 9781118912652
Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 5, Problem 50P
Determine the velocity potential for
- (a) a flow field characterized by the stream function ψ = 3x2y − y3.
- (b) a flow field characterized by the stream function ψ = xy.
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