Engineering Sciences
2026 · Paper 1
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Questions 22–24 of 197. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.
Question 22
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For a laminar, incompressible, and fully-developed flow through a circular pipe, the ratio of the maximum velocity to the average velocity of the flow is
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Air flows with a freestream velocity
over four different bodies having same frontal area facing the flow direction, as shown in the figure. Which one of the following bodies has the lowest pressure (form) drag force for Reynolds number,
? 
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Consider a steady, and incompressible flow over a body with characteristic length
. The boundary layer thickness at a distance
from the leading edge is
. Which one of the following assumptions is correct for deriving the Prandtl boundary layer equations?Your answerChoose one option.
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