The GATE Grind

GATE Heat Transfer: Convection: boundary layer, dimensionless parameters and correlations – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Convection: boundary layer, dimensionless parameters and correlations (Heat Transfer, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 ME (ME1) Q25 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – In the following two-dimensional momentum equation for natural convection over a surface immersed in a quiescent fluid at temperature T (g is the…
  2. GATE 2023 ME Q21 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider incompressible laminar flow of a constant property Newtonian fluid in an isothermal circular tube. The flow is steady with fully-developed…
  3. GATE 2024 ME Q18 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider incompressible laminar flow over a flat plate with freestream velocity of u . The Nusselt number corresponding to this flow velocity is Nu 1.…
  4. GATE 2024 ME Q19 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider a hydrodynamically fully developed laminar flow through a circular pipe with the flow along the axis (i.e., z direction). In the following…
  5. GATE 2025 ME Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Water enters a tube of diameter, D = 60 mm with mass flow rate of 0.01 kg s-1 as shown in the figure below. The inlet mean temperature is T m,i = 293…
  6. GATE 2026 ME Q27 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A quiescent fluid at temperature T 3 is confined between two vertical parallel plates. While plate 1 is kept at temperature T 1 and plate 2 is…