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  2. No-slip condition - Wikipedia

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    The no-slip condition is an empirical assumption that has been useful in modelling many macroscopic experiments. It was one of three alternatives that were the subject of contention in the 19th century, with the other two being the stagnant-layer (a thin layer of stationary fluid on which the rest of the fluid flows) and the partial slip (a finite relative velocity between solid and fluid ...

  3. Self-similar solution - Wikipedia

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    The self-similar solution of the second kind also appears in different contexts such as in boundary-layer problems subjected to small perturbations, [8] as was identified by Keith Stewartson, [9] Paul A. Libby and Herbert Fox. [10] Moffatt eddies are also a self-similar solution of the second kind.

  4. Rayleigh problem - Wikipedia

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    The initial and the no-slip condition on the wall are (,) =, (, >) =, (, >) =, the last condition is due to the fact that the motion at = is not felt at infinity. The flow is only due to the motion of the plate, there is no imposed pressure gradient.

  5. Boundary layer - Wikipedia

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    In physics and fluid mechanics, a boundary layer is the thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface. The fluid's interaction with the wall induces a no-slip boundary condition (zero velocity at the wall). The flow velocity then monotonically increases above the surface until ...

  6. Talk:No-slip condition - Wikipedia

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    For a viscous fluid, the no slip boundary condition can't be justified from first principles. It is still an open question in science. For viscous fluid flow, it fits almost all macroscopic observations and so it is simply accepted in most fluid mechanics texts books but it is still only an empirical observation, not a fundamental law.

  7. Dirichlet boundary condition - Wikipedia

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    The question of finding solutions to such equations is known as the Dirichlet problem. In the sciences and engineering, a Dirichlet boundary condition may also be referred to as a fixed boundary condition or boundary condition of the first type. It is named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859). [1]

  8. Stokes problem - Wikipedia

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    The case for an oscillating far-field flow, with the plate held at rest, can easily be constructed from the previous solution for an oscillating plate by using linear superposition of solutions. Consider a uniform velocity oscillation u ( ∞ , t ) = U ∞ cos ⁡ ω t {\displaystyle u(\infty ,t)=U_{\infty }\cos \omega t} far away from the ...

  9. Inelastic collision - Wikipedia

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    In nuclear physics, an inelastic collision is one in which the incoming particle causes the nucleus it strikes to become excited or to break up. Deep inelastic scattering is a method of probing the structure of subatomic particles in much the same way as Rutherford probed the inside of the atom (see Rutherford scattering).