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Irrotationality of the flow

To guarantee this, the sides AD and AB of the rectangle must rotate by equal and opposite amounts. In this way the diagonals of the rectangle only stretch or compresse.

This condition means that:

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Soon Woong Chang
Thu Sep 23 16:47:16 CDT 1999