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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 1 17D d Solution by
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The wall shear stress vanishes when . ThereforeFor a genuinely inclined plane the entire moving layer now flows upslope. The profile touches zero at the wall with zero derivative and becomes increasingly negative towards the surface. In the plot with velocity horizontal and height vertical, the zero derivative at the wall is represented by a vertical tangent. The resulting volume flux is , so zero wall shear stress does not mean zero flux.
Zero wall shear and an entirely upslope velocity profile
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