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Take a look at the velocity vectors, and check if in the trailing edge region, that the flow is going

in the
forward direction and there is no reverse flow. And as you get closer to stall, as the angle of attack
increases, you're going to see a separation at the trailing edge. And that's not a good thing.
In CFD-Post, I will highlight this window, View 2 by single clicking on it.
And I'll turn off the velocity magnitude contours there and add vectors. I'll say Velocity Vectors. Again, I
want it over or symmetry 1.
And I played around with the settings.
Reduction factor means that if it's 1, it'll plot it at every vertex. I want it to plot only at every third vertex
because otherwise you're going to get too many vectors.
And I played around with the symbol size too. I said I want smaller symbols. You can see the effect of
these by turning them off and on. And if I say Apply here, so I see very small vectors.
And what I did was I also normalized the symbols. So I said, just give me vectors of equal length.
Don't make them proportional to the velocity magnitude.
And then I said Apply.
And if I zoom into the trailing edge, I do see that the flow is in the forward direction, which is a good
thing. But I can see that because of this adverse pressure gradient, the pressure is increasing as the fluid
particle is coming along here are, and because of that, because of the slowing down, more and more of the
flow is a affected-- normal to the wall is affected by the viscous shear. And so you get this thickening of
the boundary layer.
There is an adverse pressure gradient on the lower surface too, but it's not as high as on the upper surface.
And so you can see that here the flow jumps from 0 to a fairly large value in a very short distance. So you
don't see that thickening of the boundary layer effect on the lower surface.

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