Aerospace Engineering
GATE AE year:2019 PYQs
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Question 31
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For real
, the number of points of intersection between the curves
and
is ______.Log in to check the answer
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One of the eigenvalues of the following matrix is 1.
The other eigenvalue is ______.Log in to check the answer
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The curve
is such that its slope is equal to
for all real
. If the curve passes through
, the value of
at
is ______ (round off to 1 decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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The inviscid, incompressible flow field resulting from a uniform flow past a circular cylinder of radius
centered at the origin is given by:

where
and
are the radial and azimuthal velocity components in polar coordinates,
, as shown in the figure.
is the free stream speed. Ignore the effects of gravity. The azimuthal location (in the first quadrant) on the cylinder at which the pressure coefficient is zero is ______ degrees (round off to the nearest integer).Log in to check the answer
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A cylindrical container of radius
cm is filled with water up to a height
. Upon rotating the cylinder about its central axis at a constant angular speed, the free surface takes a parabolic shape (see figure), and is displaced upwards by
cm at
. The magnitude of the downward displacement
of the free surface at
is ______ cm (round off to the nearest integer). 
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A two-dimensional, incompressible fluid flow is described by the stream function
m
/s on the Cartesian
-
plane. If the density and dynamic viscosity of the fluid are 1 kg/m
and 0.1 kg/m-s, respectively, the magnitude of the pressure gradient in the
direction at
m and
m is ______ N/m
(round off to 1 decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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The static pressure ratio across a stationary normal shock is given by
where
is the upstream Mach number. For a stationary normal shock in air (
,
J/kg-K) with upstream flow conditions given by: speed 800 m/s, static temperature 300 K and static pressure 1 atm., the static pressure downstream of the shock is ______ atm. (round off to 2 decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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For a symmetric airfoil at an angle of attack of 10°, assuming thin airfoil theory, the magnitude of the pitching moment coefficient about the leading edge is ______ (round off to 2 decimal places).
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The span-wise distribution of circulation over a finite wing of span
m is
If
m
/s and the free stream density and speed are 1.2 kg/m
and 100 m/s, respectively, the total lift is ______ kN (round off to 2 decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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The airplane shown in figure starts executing a symmetric pull-up maneuver from steady level altitude with a constant nose-up pitch acceleration of 20 deg/s
. The vertical load factor measured at this instant at the centre of gravity (CG) is 2. Given that the acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s
, the vertical load factor measured at point P on the nose of the airplane, which is 2 m ahead of the CG, is ______ (round off to 2 decimal places). 
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