Dimensionless wall distance (y plus)
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A non-dimensional wall distance for a wall-bounded flow can be defined in the following way:
Where is the friction velocity at the nearest wall, is the distance to the nearest wall and is the local kinematic viscosity of the fluid.
is often refered to simply as y plus and is commonly used in boundary layer theory and in defining the law of the wall.