Solution

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Let measure distance through the thin Bingham plastic layer, with a stationary wall at and large-scale velocity at . To leading lubrication order the shear stress is uniform across the layer. If , the material is unyielded and the no-slip wall makes the entire layer stationary. After yield,
Integrating across the depth gives the Bingham sliding law
Equivalently, for nonzero sliding,

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