A large plate is at rest in water at 15?C. The plate is suddenly translated parallel to itself, at 1.5 m/s. The resulting fluid movement is not exactly like that in a b.l. because the velocity profile builds up uniformly, all over, instead of from an edge. The governing transient momentum equation, Du/Dt = ?(?2u/?y2), takes the form 1 ? ?u ?t = ?2u ?y2


`Determine u at 0.015 m from the plate for t = 1, 10, and 1000 s. Do this by first posing the problem fully and then comparing it with the solution in Section 5.6. [u 0.003 m/s after 10 s.]