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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 1 17D a Solution by
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Choose downslope along the rigid plane and normal to it into the fluid, with the wall at and the flat free surface at . The gravitational body force per unit volume has components . The wind's tangential traction on the top surface is in the direction; the atmospheric normal traction is in the direction. At the wall there is no-slip boundary condition, and the wall supplies the opposing normal force and a tangential traction whose sign depends on the wind strength.
The velocity is parallel to the plane, . Its velocity profile is a concave quadratic, with and negative slope at the free surface when . The diagram uses moderate wind, for which the flow is still everywhere downslope. Stronger wind can reverse the upper portion, or the entire moving layer; the later cases quantify this.
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