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Homework Statement
Consider steady, incompressible, parallel, laminar flow of a film of oil falling down an infinite vertical wall (Figure P-1). The oil film thickness is “h” and gravity acts in the negative Z-direction (downward on the figure). There is no applied pressure driving the flow – the oil falls by gravity alone. Calculate the velocity and pressure fields in the oil film and sketch the normalized velocity profile. Neglect hydrostatic pressure changes in the surrounding air.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Hello,
I wanted to check if I am doing my Navier-Stokes correctly. Also, why is the dP/dz term zero conceptually? Does that have to do with the last statement ''Neglect hydrostatic pressure changes in the surrounding air''?
Also, I do not know how to calculate the ''pressure field''. First of all, is this the pressure profile, just to understand that the names are synonymous. Secondly, how would I go about calculating a pressure profile? From what I recall, all I remember Navier-Stokes doing is calculating velocity profiles.