Three Portraits of a Flow — Why Streamlines, Pathlines, and Streaklines Diverge
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Drop the contraction to 0.25 and throat speed jumps 4x while the local term stays at 0. With V0=0.6 and omega=2, streamline y never leaves ±0.6.
Drop the contraction to 0.25 and throat speed jumps 4x while the local term stays at 0. With V0=0.6 and omega=2, streamline y never leaves ±0.6.