Flow net — a stream past a cylinder
Two families of curves drawn over the same flow: the streamlines, along which the streamfunction is constant, and the equipotentials, along which the velocity potential is constant. They cross at right angles at every point, because they are the two parts of a single analytic function of position.
7 essays call
flow-net. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member
of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.
It is also the blast radius. Changing flow-net changes every figure listed here
at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show —
which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.
Where it is called
What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.
- One function instead of two Ideal flow
- Bodies made out of nothing Ideal flow
- The number on a streamline is a flow rate Flows and fields
- A wall made by reflection Ideal flow
- What the far field remembers Ideal flow
- The mirror that is a circle Ideal flow
- Where the unknown boundary is the known one Ideal flow