Is ideal fluid flow around an airfoil the Lambert W function?

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NOTE: By "ideal", I mean incompressible & inviscid (the forum doesn't allow a long enough title).

I was looking at this Wikipedia article, and the graph of this function struck me as looking exactly like ideal fluid flow around an object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_W_function

EDIT: OK, I continued reading the article, and indeed, this function seems to be used for flow around a smooth object of any viscosity. Is there any good article that delves into this further?
 

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