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You want to know how much water is lifted out of the bath. What's the surface of the steel look like?

What is this and why does it matter? Won't the water just "rain" back down into the bath?

I can only make a suggestion about the layer thickness.

If you consider an element dy * dz * l at the distance y from the steel band surface which moves with Wo upwards it is possible to write that this element has on one side a shear force τ*dz*l, on the other side (τ+dτ)*dz*l and is under the gravity force g*dm= g*dy*dz*l. The force balance leads to the relationship: dτ=g*dy→dτ/dy=g. We know that τ=η* dv/dy and that η=ρ*ν so that we obtain: dτ/dy=η*(d2v/dy2) and finally: d2v/dy2=g/ν. Integrating the equation we obtain the evolution of the fluid in the film perpendicular to the movement: v= Wo-g/(2*ν)*y^2. At a distance

y*= (2*ν*Wo*ν/g )^0.5

the velocity is zero (ν=kinematic viscosity and g= earth acceleration, Wo is the band transport velocity). For y>y* the velocities are <0 which means that the transported fluid flows back down. As one sees the problem is not the same as for the boundary layer where the fluid is "stopped" by the friction to the wall, in this case the friction is moving the fluid!

If I did not make any error the value for y* at 20°C will be about 1.25 mm. It decreases with temperature increase.