Aerospace Engineering
GATE AE topic:aerodynamics PYQs
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Question 21
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Velocity of an airplane in the body fixed axes is given as [100 -10 20] m/s. The sideslip angle is ______ degrees (round off to two decimal places).
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The similarity solution for the diffusion equation,
is
, where similarity variable,
. If
, the ratio
______ (round off to one decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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Air enters the rotor of an axial compressor stage with no pre-whirl (
) and exits the rotor with whirl velocity,
m/s. The velocity of rotor vanes,
is 200 m/s. Assuming
J/(kg K), the stagnation temperature rise across the rotor is ______ K (round off to one decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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A thin walled beam of constant thickness shown in the figure is subjected to a torque of 3.2 kNm. If the shear modulus is 25 GPa, the angle of twist per unit length is ______ rad/m (round off to three decimal places).

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An airplane of mass 5000 kg is flying at a constant speed of 360 km/h at the bottom of a vertical circle with a radius of 400 m, as shown in the figure. Assuming that the acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s
, the load factor experienced at the center of gravity of the airplane is ______ (round off to two decimal places).

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The equation
, where
is a constant, represents a family ofYour answerChoose one option.
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A wedge shaped airfoil is placed in a supersonic flow as shown in the figure (not to scale). The corners of the wedge are at
,
,
, respectively. Which one of the following represents the correct static pressure profiles along
and
? 
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The value of Poisson’s ratio at which the shear modulus of an isotropic material is equal to the bulk modulus is
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A load
is applied to the free end of a stepped cantilever beam as shown in the figure. The Young’s modulus of the material is
, and the moments of inertia of the two sections of length 2 m and 1 m are
and
, respectively. Ignoring transverse shear and stress concentration effects, the deflection at the point where the load is applied at the free end of the cantilever is 
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The three dimensional strain-stress relation for an isotropic material, written in a general matrix form, is
,
and
are compliances which depend on the elastic properties of the material. Which one of the following is correct?Your answerChoose one option.
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