Question: A graduate student is running a CFD code for his MS research project and generates a plot of flow streamlines (contours of constant stream function).

A graduate student is running a CFD code for his  MS research project and generates a plot of flow streamlines (contours of constant stream function). The contours are of equally spaced values of stream function. Professor I. C. Flows looks at the plot and immediately points to a region of the flow and says, “Look how fast the flow is moving here!” What did Professor Flows notice about the streamlines in that region and how did she know that the flow was fast in that region?

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