GATE CH · 2024 · CH
Question 36: Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations
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Question 36
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Consider a steady, fully-developed, uni-directional laminar flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid (viscosity
) between two infinitely long horizontal plates separated by a distance
as shown in the figure. The flow is driven by the combined action of a pressure gradient and the motion of the bottom plate at
in the negative
direction. Given that
, where
and
are the pressures at two
locations separated by a distance
. The bottom plate has a velocity of magnitude
with respect to the stationary top plate at
. Which one of the following represents the
-component of the fluid velocity vector? 
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GATE CH 2024 · Paper 1
Chemical Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Chemical Engineering
- Question type
- Multiple choice (MCQ)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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