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GATE Thermal Engineering Applications: Turbomachinery: turbines, compressors, pumps – Previous Year Questions

2 GATE previous year questions on Turbomachinery: turbines, compressors, pumps (Thermal Engineering Applications, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2025 ME Q53 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider a Pelton wheel of 1 m diameter. The magnitude of relative velocity of water at the bucket inlet is same as the magnitude of relative velocity…
  2. GATE 2026 ME Q58 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – An inward flow reaction turbine, having an outer diameter of 1 m, runs at 600 RPM. The normal component of absolute velocity at the inlet is 10 m/s.…