• DECEMBER 2019

Laminar Flow Over Flat Plate

 Velocity Field
• The vector plot shows the
flow velocity growing from
0 𝑚/𝑠 to 1.01 𝑚/𝑠 inside
the boundary layer
• The max velocity is slightly
higher than the inlet
velocity (1 𝑚/𝑠) due to the
displacement effect
• The flow direction is nearly
parallel to the plate while
the small component on y
direction comes also from
the displacement effect • The boundary layer grows
thicker along the plate and the
velocity profile in it is stretched
 Comparison with Blasius Solution
• Velocity profiles are extracted from lines that are vertical to the plate, 0.1, 0.2,
0.3, 0.4 and 0.5 m away from the leading edge of the plate
• The velocity profiles obtained from Ansys Fluent simulation fit well against the
Blasius analytical solution with less than 1% of relative errors
• As the displacement effect of the boundary layer, which will lead to slight
acceleration in flow right outside the boundary layer, is not reflected in Blasius
Solution, the velocity predicted Ansys Fluent is slightly higher comparatively

• There is an excellent
agreement between
numerical values of wall
friction calculated by
Ansys FLUENT, and the
Blasius solution
Appendix
Laminar Flow Over Flat Plate
Additional Set Up Notes
• To avoid the repeating line creation, you can try to automate the line creation
by reading the journal file attached
• The journal file is composed of TUI commands and can be edited with various
text editor: