An accelerating laminar thin-film flow along a vertical wall is investigated in this paper. Using a cubic polynomial for the velocity profile inside the boundary layer the momentum integral equation is solved by a Runge-Kutta method to determine the boundary layer thickness. The corresponding film-thickness is then calculated for the entrance region. These results are compared with the existing results obtained by using a parabolic velocity profile.
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