Aerospace Engineering
GATE AE year:2025 PYQs
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Question 41
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The equation of a closed curve in two-dimensional polar coordinates is given by
. The area enclosed by the curve is
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Consider the ordinary differential equation:
. If
at
, then the value of
at
is
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An approximate solution of the equation
is to be obtained using the Newton-Raphson method. If the initial guess is
, the value at the end of the first iteration is
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and
denote unit vectors in the
and
directions, respectively. The outward flux of the two-dimensional vector field
over the unit circle centered at the origin is
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An aircraft is flying at an altitude of 4500 m above sea level, where the ambient pressure, temperature and density are 57 kPa, 259 K and 0.77 kg/m
, respectively. The speed of the aircraft (
) is 230 m/s. Gas constant
J/kg/K, and specific heat ratio
. If the stagnation pressure is
, and static pressure is
, the value of
is
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A rectangular wing of 1.2 m chord length and aspect ratio 5 is tested in a wind tunnel at an air speed of 60 m/s. The density and the dynamic viscosity of air are 1.3 kg/m
and
kg/m-s, respectively. A second rectangular wing of the same span, but with an aspect ratio of 6, is to be tested in the same tunnel at the same Reynolds number. The air speed at which the second test should be performed is
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In a low-speed airplane, a venturimeter with 1.3:1 area ratio is used for airspeed measurement. The airplane’s maximum speed at sea level is 90 m/s. If the density of air at sea level is 1.225 kg/m
, the maximum pressure difference between the inlet and the throat of the venturimeter is
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A supersonic stream of an ideal gas at Mach number
is turned by a ramp, as shown in the figure. The ramp angle is 20°. The pressure ratio is
and the specific heat ratio is
. The pressure coefficient on the ramp surface is
(rounded off to two decimal places). 
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A perfect gas flows through a frictionless constant-area duct with heat addition. The inlet conditions are as follows: pressure 100 kPa, density 1 kg/m
, and velocity 100 m/s. At a particular downstream location, the gas velocity is 200 m/s. The static pressure at the downstream location is
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