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GATE Transport Phenomena and Rate Processes: Heat transfer – Previous Year Questions

13 GATE previous year questions on Heat transfer (Transport Phenomena and Rate Processes, Metallurgical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 MT Q43 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The shown steady one-dimensional temperature distribution is across adjacent refractory blocks of unit cross-sectional area and conductivities k 1,k…
  2. GATE 2021 MT Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A solid sphere of radius 0.5 m is enclosed by a hollow sphere of radius 1 m. Radiation exchanges between the small sphere’s outer surface (1) and…
  3. GATE 2022 MT Q43 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which of the following statement(s) is(are) TRUE about black body radiation?
  4. GATE 2022 MT Q54 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A block consists of Materials I and II with identical cross-sections and equal thicknesses 25 mm, as shown. Bottom and top temperatures are 435 K and…
  5. GATE 2022 MT Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Air enters a tube at 300 K and 1.5 kg/s. Tube inner diameter is 0.08 m, inner-wall temperature 700 K, and outlet-air temperature 600 K. For purely…
  6. GATE 2023 MT Q58 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Two circular surfaces A and B have emissivities, temperatures, and view factors as shown. Consider radiation only between A and B. Given =5.6710-8 W…
  7. GATE 2024 MT Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Two different-metal rods, each of length L/2 and diameter d L, have constant conductivities k 1>k 2 and perfect contact (zero interface thermal…
  8. GATE 2024 MT Q38 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A slender cylindrical rod of conductivity k, length L, and diameter d L contacts an infinite liquid heat sink at its right end, as shown. At steady…
  9. GATE 2024 MT Q59 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A long cylindrical metal rod of radius r, length L r, and resistivity e carries current I in vacuum and loses heat only by radiation. Its steady…
  10. GATE 2025 MT Q39 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Radiative heat flux q at a hot surface of temperature T s is expressed as q=A f(T s,T )(T s-T ), where A is a constant and T is the surroundings…
  11. GATE 2025 MT Q59 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The two sides of a 0.4 m thick copper plate are at 1000 and 500 °C. Assuming steady, one-dimensional conduction and ignoring end effects, the…
  12. GATE 2026 MT Q28 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which one of the following options is correct? For a solid immersed in a fluid, the convective heat transfer coefficient across the solid-fluid…
  13. GATE 2026 MT Q59 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A cylindrical furnace has an inner diameter of 0.1 m and height of 0.2 m. Its inner cylindrical wall A 1 and inner bottom A 2 are maintained at 1873…