Talk:No-slip condition

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[edit] Justification

Obviously the no-slip condition is fairly accurate or we wouldn't use it in fluid dynamics. Still, I've never seen a physical justification. At that last layer of molecules, why are they necessarily bound to the solid? That implies that the bond strength between them and the solid is always stronger than the fluid to itself, which can't always be true, can it? I'd guess this comes down surface texture, but don't have any sources for this.―BenFrantzDale 23:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC).

True —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.104.117.199 (talk • contribs)

Although I'm rather busy at the moment and won't be able to add anything for a while, I have heard a justification before, it's more to do with molecules at the boundary reaching thermal equilibrium with the solid rather then intra molecular bonds.―Andrew.Ainsworth 21:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] This page for dummies

This page needs a simple and yet complex explanation of no slip condition, as it is only those who know a thing or two about fuild flow will understand this page, and i don't mean know a thing or two as in the water flows down the pipe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.79.15.101 (talk) 21:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC)