Rankine body
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The Rankine body discovered by William John Macquorn Rankine, is a feature of naval architecture involving the flow of liquid around a body/surface.
In fluid mechanics, a fluid flow pattern formed by combining a uniform stream with a source and a sink of equal strengths, with the line joining the source and sink along the stream direction.
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