Engineering Sciences
GATE XE discipline:engineering-sciences PYQs
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Question 31
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A steady, laminar, and incompressible flow between a pair of infinite parallel plates is driven by a constant pressure gradient
. The plates are separated by a distance
, as shown in the figure. The fully-developed velocity profile of the flow is
where
is the dynamic viscosity.The values of
, for which the local flow velocity is equal to the average flow velocity, are 
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An incompressible fluid flows between a pair of infinite plates separated by a distance
. The top plate is moving with a constant velocity
, whereas the bottom plate is stationary, as shown in the figure. The difference of the stream functions (
) at the two plates for a laminar and fully-developed flow is equal to 
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Consider two different cases of water flowing through a smooth pipe of 50 cm diameter. The mass flow rates for the two cases are (i) 0.25 kg.s
, and (ii) 0.8 kg.s
. Assume the density and dynamic viscosity of water as 1000 kg.m
and
Pa.s, respectively. Which one of the following options is correct?Your answerChoose one option.
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A two-dimensional source flow (with stream function,
) is placed at the origin in a uniform flow (with stream function,
). Here, the strength of the source is
and the freestream velocity is
. The velocity components
and
of the combined flow in
- and
-directions, respectively, areYour answerChoose one option.
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Consider a steady, laminar, and incompressible flow over a flat plate, as shown in the figure. With freestream velocity
and kinematic viscosity
, the boundary layer thickness at a distance
from the leading edge is
. If the kinematic viscosity of the fluid is increased by a factor of four (
), the boundary layer thickness (
) at
with same
will be equal to 
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A vertical jet of diameter
strikes a horizontal plate with a velocity
, as shown in the figure. The plate has a hole of diameter
concentric to the flow through which a portion of fluid passes with the same velocity
. The remaining fluid moves radially outward along the plate. If
is the force acting vertically upward to hold the horizontal plate at its initial place, which of the following statements is/are true? 
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The velocity of a fluid part in a flow is given as:
where
,
,
are constants, and
,
,
are unit vectors in x-, y-, z-directions, respectively.
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A gas is pressurized in a vertical frictionless piston-cylinder device, as shown in the figure. The piston has a mass of 4 kg and a cross-sectional area of 40 cm
. A metallic block of 13 kg is placed on the piston. The atmospheric pressure (
) is 1 bar. Assume acceleration due to gravity as 10 m.s
. The pressure inside the cylinder,
(in bar) is __________. (rounded off to three decimal places) 
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A ship is designed to sail at a speed of 8 m.s
. A designer makes a 1/10 scaled model to test the ship in a water tunnel. The model and the ship satisfy the dynamic similarity. The speed (in m.s
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A rectangular block (density = 600 kg.m
) with base area of 0.06 m
and height 15 cm is partially submerged in water (density = 1000 kg.m
), as shown in the figure. Assume acceleration due to gravity as 10 m.s
. The submerged depth,
(in m) of the block in the water is __________. (rounded off to two decimal places) 
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