Question 65

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The velocity profile for a fully developed laminar flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid, at steady state, through a horizontal infinitely wide and long slit of gap 0.01 m is given by the following equation.

where y is the vertical distance measured from the center of the slit. The average velocity of the fluid (in m s⁻¹) is __________ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

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2026CH

GATE CH 2026 · Paper 1

Chemical Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Chemical Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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2 marks

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