{"id":167744,"date":"2022-03-25T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/fluent-trouble-finding-flow-separation-point-using-wall-shear-stress\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:08:17","slug":"fluent-trouble-finding-flow-separation-point-using-wall-shear-stress","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/fluent-trouble-finding-flow-separation-point-using-wall-shear-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"FLUENT &#8211; Trouble Finding Flow Separation Point using Wall Shear Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>For a class assignment, we have been directed to find the location of flow separation from a FLUENT simulation of flow around an airfoil (uniform free-stream velocity, Re=50k). We were directed to look at the wall shear stress and find the point where it changes sign.<\/p>\n<p>From the simulation results, flow separation appears to occur a little over half-way along the airfoil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/180\/ZANE0TDL5Q8G.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/180\/ZANE0TDL5Q8G.png\" alt=\"fluent-img-1.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-167744","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-2d","topic-tag-airfoil","topic-tag-flow-separation","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-wall-shear-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_btv_view_count":["2309"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["252021"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["167744"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","22555","252021"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["9"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["209666"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["209666"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-03-25 17:08:17"]},"test":"maide002umn-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}