Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Here we will combine the previous two elementary flows: uniform and source/sink flow (links below). After showing the Cartesian velocity components on the board, we will go through a script to compute the combined flow-field and calculate the circulation around an arbitrary curve.

==== RELEVANT VIDEOS ====
Incompressible Potential Flow
- youtube.com/watch?v=Zo5XIcX8s2Q

Uniform Flow
- youtube.com/watch?v=jCTTDclJZEk

Source/Sink Flow
- youtube.com/watch?v=eLDI_jV3yo0

Vortex Flow
- youtube.com/watch?v=61jvr3rtmLE

Uniform + Vortex Flow
- youtube.com/watch?v=SoMuRp5v16w

==== RELEVANT LINKS ====
Blog post about incompressible potential flow
► joshtheengineer.com/2019/05/05/introduction-to-incompressible-potential-flow

Blog and code for combined uniform and source/sink flow
► joshtheengineer.com/2019/08/25/combined-flow-uniform-and-source-flow

GitHub: Panel Methods
► github.com/jte0419/Panel_Methods

===== REFERENCES =====
Note: the links are Amazon affiliate links. If you do happen to want to buy the book and use the link below, it helps me out a little.
► Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Anderson
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► Foundations of Aerodynamics, Kuethe and Chow
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► Theory of Wing Sections, Abbott and Doenhoff
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► Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, Currie
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► Elements of Gasdynamics, Liepmann and Roshko
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