Steady differential rotation (left panel) and norm of the total meridional velocity field with the associated streamlines in black (right panel), in the Eddington–Sweet regime obtained for E = 10⁻⁶, P_r(N₀/Ω₀)² = 10⁻¹, Re_c = 10⁻², and ρ_i/ρ₀ = 20.9 (run 10.3 in Table 8). In the left panel the coloured contours are normalised to the rotation rate of the outer sphere Ω₀. In the right panel the streamlines are as follows: outside the tangent cylinder the dashed lines describe an anticlockwise circulation and the solid lines a clockwise one; inside the tangent cylinder the dashed lines correspond to a downward meridional flow and the solid lines to an inward flow.