GATE ME 2020 ME Q49: Fluid Mechanics

Consider steady, viscous, fully developed flow of a fluid through a circular pipe of internal diameter

. We know that the velocity profile forms a parabola about the pipe centre line, given by:

m/s, where

is a constant. The rate of kinetic energy (in J/s) at the control surface A-B, as shown in the figure, is proportional to

. The value of

is ______.

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