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Past exam of the flows, fluctuations and complexity and symmetry and relativity paper of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford 2011 2 1 Solution by
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Write for dynamic viscosity and for kinematic viscosity, consistently with the introductory Navier-Stokes equation. The phrase “dynamic viscosity ” in this request mixes these conventions. A fully developed plane Poiseuille flow, , has zero convective acceleration. The Navier-Stokes equation gives and . Applying the no-slip boundary condition at both stationary plates givesThe material coefficients must be effectively constant and positive. The profile is an exact parallel-flow solution for every ; experimental validity additionally requires that the realized flow remain in the laminar flow regime. A sufficient conservative condition isEquivalently , or . This sufficient bound is stronger than necessary; there is no need to discard convective acceleration by an approximation here because it vanishes identically for the assumed profile.
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