or vorticity present. For potential flow around a circular cylinder, it provides the following results:

Non-spinning cylinder

thumbThe flow pattern is symmetric about a horizontal axis through the centre of the cylinder. At each point above the axis and its corresponding point below the axis, the spacing of streamlines is the same so velocities are also the same at the two points. Bernoulli's principle shows that, outside the boundary layers,

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