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GATE Aerodynamics: Viscous flows: Hagen-Poiseuille flow, Couette flow and boundary layers – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Viscous flows: Hagen-Poiseuille flow, Couette flow and boundary layers (Aerodynamics, Aerospace Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 AE Q52 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – For boundary-layer profile u/U=(y/)2, the shape factor */ is
  2. GATE 2022 AE Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the velocity distribution, u(y) shown in the figure. For two adjacent fluid layers L1 and L2, the viscous force exerted by L1 on L2 is
  3. GATE 2022 AE Q52 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider a solid cylinder housed inside another cylinder as shown in the figure. Radius of the inner cylinder is 1 m and its height is 2 m. The gap…
  4. GATE 2023 AE Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the Blasius solution for the incompressible laminar flat plate boundary layer. Among the following options, select the correct relation for…
  5. GATE 2025 AE Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – For a two-dimensional incompressible flow over a flat plate, the laminar boundary layer thickness at a distance x from the leading edge is . If Re x…
  6. GATE 2024 AE Q42 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Consider a flat plate, with a sharp leading edge, placed in a uniform flow of speed U. The direction of the free-stream flow is aligned with the…