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Zoom in a little using the middle mouse button to peer more closely at the velocity vectors.

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Select Pressure...under Contours Of. Then select Pressure Coefficient from the second drop-down menu. Also, check the Filled checkbox and set Levels to 90. Then click on Display to update the display window.

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Zoom in at the leading edge.

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Why is the pressure not constant at the leading edge of the plate?

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Change Pressure to Wall Fluxes. Then, change Wall Shear Stress to Skin Friction Coefficient. Under Surfaces, select plate. 

 
Click Plot.
 

 
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Now, compare your solution to the with the Blasius solution's skin friction by loading the file and then plotting it with your solution. (Download file here)

Also, you can change the symbol into lines by going to Curves... and click on the corresponding pattern that you like. Increase the Weight to 3 for readability. Both results should be fairly similar.

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Plot Velocity Profiles

Results > Plots > XY Plot

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Click Plot.

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To compare with the Blasius solution, download the solution here. Click Load File...and select the file you just downloaded. Then plot the solutions again to display both lines on the same graph.

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What is the noticeably different between two solutions? Why is the velocity overshoot 1 for FLUENT's solution?

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Under Surfaces, select outlet and {}x_0.5 and Plot.

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Go to Step 7: Refine Mesh