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6.9 Some Simple Solutions for Laminar, Viscous, Incompressible Fluids 309<br />

system. In these cases exact solutions are often possible. The Navier–Stokes equations apply to both<br />

laminar and turbulent flow, but for turbulent flow each velocity component fluctuates randomly with<br />

respect to time and this added complication makes an analytical solution intractable. Thus, the exact<br />

solutions referred to are for laminar flows in which the velocity is either independent of time 1steady<br />

flow2 or dependent on time 1unsteady flow2 in a well-defined manner.<br />

An exact solution<br />

can be obtained for<br />

steady laminar flow<br />

between fixed parallel<br />

plates.<br />

V6.11 No-slip<br />

boundary condition<br />

6.9.1 Steady, Laminar Flow between Fixed Parallel Plates<br />

We first consider flow between the two horizontal, infinite parallel plates of Fig. 6.31a. For this<br />

geometry the <strong>fluid</strong> particles move in the x direction parallel to the plates, and there is no velocity<br />

in the y or z direction—that is, v 0 and w 0. In this case it follows from the continuity equation<br />

1Eq. 6.312 that 0u0x 0. Furthermore, there would be no variation of u in the z direction for<br />

infinite plates, and for steady flow 0u0t 0 so that u u1y2. If these conditions are used in the<br />

Navier–Stokes equations 1Eqs. 6.1272, they reduce to<br />

(6.129)<br />

(6.130)<br />

(6.131)<br />

where we have set g x 0, g y g, and g z 0. That is, the y axis points up. We see that for this<br />

particular problem the Navier–Stokes equations reduce to some rather simple equations.<br />

Equations 6.130 and 6.131 can be integrated to yield<br />

(6.132)<br />

which shows that the pressure varies hydrostatically in the y direction. Equation 6.129, rewritten<br />

as<br />

can be integrated to give<br />

and integrated again to yield<br />

0 0p<br />

0x m a 02 u<br />

0y 2 b<br />

0 0p<br />

0y rg<br />

0 0p<br />

0z<br />

p rgy f 1 1x2<br />

d 2 u<br />

dy 1 0p<br />

2 m 0x<br />

du<br />

dy 1 m a 0p<br />

0x b y c 1<br />

u 1<br />

2m a 0p<br />

0x b y2 c 1 y c 2<br />

(6.133)<br />

Note that for this simple flow the pressure gradient, 0p0x, is treated as constant as far as the<br />

integration is concerned, since 1as shown in Eq. 6.1322 it is not a function of y. The two constants<br />

c 1 and c 2 must be determined from the boundary conditions. For example, if the two plates are<br />

h<br />

y<br />

u<br />

u<br />

h<br />

z<br />

x<br />

g<br />

u max<br />

(a)<br />

F I G U R E 6.31 The viscous flow between parallel plates:<br />

(a) coordinate system and notation used in analysis; (b) parabolic velocity<br />

distribution for flow between parallel fixed plates.<br />

(b)

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