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Flow Pattern, Stream Function, Potential Function

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An Introduction to Hydrodynamics and Water Waves

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The laws that govern the motion of an infinitely small particle of fluid have been established in Part One (Chapters 2 to 9). Some general relationships among velocity, pressure, and gravity, such as that given by the Bernoulli equation, were deduced by general exact integration, independent of the boundary conditions (Chapter 10).

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Le Méhauté, B. (1976). Flow Pattern, Stream Function, Potential Function. In: An Introduction to Hydrodynamics and Water Waves. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85567-2_11

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