Wall boundary condition

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Why is it that at $y=0$ (at the wall), we have $v=0$ (vertical component of velocity)? Obviously $v$ cannot be negative there as there is no flow through the wall, however how do fluid particles move off the wall if they don't have positive velocity?

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Individual molecules can collide with the wall and move to it and away from it, but we're talking about a continuous model of fluid motion here. If $v$ was positive at some point $(x_0,0)$ on the wall (and continuous, so positive in some rectangle $R = \{(x,y): |x - x_0| < \epsilon, 0 \le y < \delta\}$, then (taking $\delta$ sufficiently small relative to $\epsilon$) all the fluid would soon flow out of $R$, leaving a vacuum.