When dealing with fluid mechanics of viscous fluids, both theoretically and numerically, I've always been told that the boundary condition applied at solid walls has to be a no-slip one. My teachers or textbooks never really explained why, except sometimes "well, the fluid's viscous, so it sticks to solid" which is far from an explanation to me. Therefore I'm reading a little bit to understand the real origin of this condition, and so far there is on thing that I don't understand in what I've found: in Volume II of Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics by S. Goldstein, it is written that:
"[...]; finally he [Navier] decided on the first [hypothesis on the behaviour of a fluid near a solid body], on the grounds that the existence of slip would imply that the friction between solid and fluid was of a different nature from, and infinitely less than, the friction between two layers of fluid, and also that the agreement with observation of results obtained on the assumption of no slip was highly satisfactory."
I do not understand what is in bold: what does the "different nature" of friction means, and why would it be "infinitely less"?
NB: After this statement, Goldstein refers to a bibliographic entry, but I don't know if it's possible to find such archive on the Internet. Here it is anyway: Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 8 (1845), 299, 300; Math and Phys. Papers, 3, 14, 15.
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