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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PAPERI
1. For a fluid having Prandtl number equal to b. 11/48
unity, how are the hydrodynamic boundary c. 24/11
layer thickness , and the thermal
d. 11/24
boundary layer thickness t related ?
6. Match List - I with List - II and select the
a. = t correct answer using the code given below
b. > t the lists
c. < t List - I (Non-dimensional Number)
d. t = 1/3 A. Grashof number
2. If, in a pump, the discharge is halved, then, B. Stanton number
assuming that the speed remains C. Sherwood number
unchanged, what would be the ratio of the D. Fourier number
heads H1/H2?
List-II (Application)
a. 1/ 3 1. Mass transfer
b. 2/3 2. Unsteady state heat conduction
c. 3
0.25 3. Free convection
3 4. Forced convection
d. 05
Codes;
3. For calculation of heat transfer by natural
convection from a horizontal cylinder, A B C D
what is the characteristic length in Grashof a. 4 3 1 2
number? b. 3 4 1 2
a. Diameter of the cylinder c. 4 3 2 1
b. Length of the cylinder d. 3 4 2 1
c. Circumference of the base of the 7. Usually fins are provided to increase the
cylinder rate of heat transfer. But fins also act as
d. Half the circumference of the base of insulation. Which one of the following
the cylinder non-dimensional numbers decides this
4. Which one of the following non- factor?
dimensional numbers is used for transition a. Eckert number
from laminar to turbulent flow in free b. Biot number
convection? c. Fourier number
a. Reynolds number d. Peclet number
b. Grashof number 8. What is the expression for the thermal
c. Peclet number conduction resistance to heat transfer
d. Rayleigh number through a hollow sphere of inner radius r1
5. For steady, uniform flow through pipes and outer radius r2, and thermal
with constant heat flux supplied to the conductivity k?
wall, which is the value of Nusselt
a.
r2 r1 r1r2
number? 4 k
a. 48/11
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4 k r2 r1 2. Effectiveness
b.
r1r2 3. Nusselt number
r2 r1 4. Eddy diffusivity
c. Codes;
4 k r1r2
A B C D
d. None of these
a. 3 1 2 4
9. A composite wall having three layers of
thickness 0.3 m, 0.2 m and 0.1 m and of b. 2 4 3 1
thermal conductivities 0.6, 0.4 and 0.1 W/ c. 3 4 2 1
mK, respectively, is having surface area 1 d. 2 1 3 4
m2. If the inner and outer temperatures of
13. Throttle governing, in steam turbines
the composite wall are 1840 K and 340 K,
respectively, what is the rate of heat a. Leads to significant pressure loss
transfer? b. Increases the efficiency
a. 150 W c. Increases heat losses
b. 1500 W d. Decreases steam temperature
c. 75 W 14. An open cycle constant pressure gas
d. 750 W turbine uses a fuel of calorific value
40,000 kJ/kg, with air fuel ratio of 80 : 1
10. For conduction through a spherical wall
and develops a net output of 80 kJ/kg of
with constant thermal conductivity and
air. What is the thermal efficiency of the
with inner side temperature greater than
cycle?
outer wall temperature, (one dimensional
heat transfer), what is the type of a. 61%
temperature distribution? b. 16%
a. Linear c. 18%
b. Parabolic d. None of the above
c. Hyperbolic 15. Consider the following statements in
d. None of the above respect of gas turbines:
11. A wall of thickness 0.6 m has width has a A gas turbine plant with reheater leads to a
normal area 1.5 m2 and is made up of 1. Considerable improvement in the work
material of thermal conductivity 0.4 output.
W/mK. The temperatures on the two sides 2. Considerable improvement in the
are 8000 C and 1000 C. What is the thermal efficiency.
thermal resistance of the wall?
Which of the statements given above is/are
a. 1 W/K correct?
b. 1.8 W/K a. 1 only
c. 1 K/W b. 2 only
d. 1.8 K/W c. Both 1 and 2
12. Match List - I with List - II and select the d. Neither 1 nor 2
correct answer using the code given below
16. Consider the following statements:
the lists:
Diesel knock can be reduced by
List-I
1. Increasing the compression ratio.
A. Heat Exchangers
2. Increasing the engine speed.
B. Turbulent flow
3. Increasing the injection retard.
C. Free convection
4. Decreasing the inlet air temperature.
D. Radiation heat transfer
Which of the statements given above are
List-II
correct?
1. View factor
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a. 2 and 4 only a. Efficiency of the Carnot cycle for
b. 1, 2 and, only thermal power plant is high and work
ratio is also high in comparison to the
c. 1 and 3 only
Rankine cycle
d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
b. Efficiency of the Carnot cycle is high
17. Which one of the following is correct? and work ratio is low in comparison to
When a real gas undergoes Joule - the Rankine cycle
Thomson expansion, the temperature c. Efficiency of the Carnot cycle is low
a. may remain constant. and work ratio is also low in
b. always increases. comparison to the Rankine cycle
c. may increase or decrease. d. Both the cycles have same efficiencies
and work ratio
d. always decreases.
21. Which property of mercury is the main
18. Which one of the following is correct? For
reason for its use in barometers?
the same net power output
a. High density
a. the turbine used in gas turbine power
plants is larger than that used in steam b. Negligible capillarity effect
power plants c. Very low vapour pressure
b. the turbine used in gas turbine power d. Low compressibility
plants is smaller than that used in 22. If the relationship between the shear stress
steam power plants and the rate of shear strain (du/dy) is
c. the same turbine can be used for both expressed as = (du/dy)n, then the fluid
plants with exponent n > 1 is known as which
d. None of the above one of the following?
19. Match List - I with List -II and select the a. Bingham plastic
correct answer using the code given below b. Dilatant fluid
the lists c. Newtonian fluid
List - I (Prime Mover) d. Pseudo plastic fluid
A. High speed diesel engine 23. What are the dimensions of kinematic
B. IC engine having expansion ratio viscosity of a fluid?
greater than compression ratio a. L T -2
C. Pulse jet engine b. L2 T-1
D. Gas turbine with multistage c. M L-1 T-1
compression and multistage expansion
d. M L-2 T-2
List -II (Air Standard Cycles)
24. The pressure difference of two very light
1. Atkinson cycle gases in two rigid vessels is being
2. Dual combustion (limited pressure) measured by a vertical U-tube water filled
cycle manometer. The reading is found to be 10
3. Ericsson cycle cm. What is the
4. Lenoir cycle 25. A circular plate 15 m diameter is
Codes; submerged in water with its greatest and
least depths below the surface being 2 m
A B C D and 075 m respectively. What is the total
a. 3 1 4 2 pressure (approximately) on one face of
b. 2 4 1 3 the plate?
c. 3 4 1 2 a. 12 kN
d. 2 1 4 3 b. l6 kN
20. Which one of the following statements is c. 24 kN
correct? d. None of the above
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26. Whenever a plate is submerged at an angle 32. For maximum blade efficiency (utilization
with the direction of flow of liquid, it is factor), what is the work (J/kg) done in a
subjected to some pressure. What is the single stage 50% reaction turbine?
component of this pressure in the direction (where u = mean peripheral speed of the
of flow of liquid, known as? rotor in m/s)
a. Stagnation pressure a. 2 u2
b. Lift b. 11u2
c. Drag c. u3
d. Bulk modulus d. u2
27. Which one of the following is the correct 33. Which one of the following is the correct
statement? Performance of mechanical statement?
draft cooling tower is superior to natural
Specific speed of a fluid machine
draft with
a. refers to the speed of a machine of unit
a. increase in air wet bulb temperature
dimensions
b. decrease in air wet bulb temperature
b. is a type-number representative of its
c. increase in dry bulb temperature performance
d. increase in recirculation of air c. is specific to the particular machine
28. Resultant pressure of the liquid in case of d. depends only upon the head under
an immersed body acts through which one which the machine operates
of the following?
34. Which one of the following accessories is
a. Centre of gravity connected to the steam supply pipe line to
b. Centre of pressure maintain constant pressure?
c. Metacentre a. Pressure reducing valve
d. Centre of buoyancy b. Steam separator
29. A hydrometer weighs 003 N and has a c. Steam trap
stem at the upper end which is cylindrical d. Injector
and 3 mm in diameter. It will float deeper
35. Which one of the following fittings is
in oil of specific gravity O75, than in
mounted on the boiler to put off the fire in
alcohol of specific gravity 08 by how
the furnace, when water level falls to an
much amount?
unsafe limit?
a. 10.7 mm
a. Feed check valve
b. 43.3
b. Safety valve
c. 33 mm
c. Fusible plug
d. 36 mm
d. Blow off cock
30. Which one of the following pumps is not a
36. The combustion analysis carried out by the
positive displacement pump?
Orsat Apparatus renders which one of the
a. Reciprocating pump following?
b. Centrifugal pump a. The percentage composition by weight
c. Vane pump on the dry basis
d. Lobe pump b. The percentage. composition by
31. The overall efficiency of a pelton turbine volume on the dry basis
is 70%. If the mechanical efficiency is 85 c. The percentage composition by weight
%, what is its hydraulic efficiency? on the wet basis
a. 82.4% d. The percentage composition by
b. 59.5% volume on the wet basis
c. 72.3%
d. 81.5%
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37. Which one of the following boiler a. Maximum efficiency but very less
accessories does not need flue-gas for its specific work output
operation? b. Maximum efficiency and very high
a. Economizer specific work output
b. Preheater c. Minimum efficiency and very less
c. Injector specific work output
d. Super heater d. Minimum efficiency but very high
specific work output
38. Consider the following statements in
respect of axial flow air compressors: 43. Which of the following techniques are
employed for control of reciprocating
1. An axial flow air compressor is often
compressors?
described as a reversed reaction
turbine. 1. Throttle control
2. With 50% degree of reaction, the 2. Clearance control
velocity diagrams are symmetrical 3. Blowing air to waste
Which of the statements given above is/are Select the correct answer using the code
correct? given below
a. 1 only a. 1, 2 and 3
b. 2 only b. 1 and 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2 c. 2 and 3 only
d. Neither 1 nor 2 d. 1 and 3 only
39. In a subsonic diffuser 44. Match List - I with List - II and select the
a. Static pressure increases with Mach correct answer using the code given below
number the lists
b. Mach number decreases with List - I (Name of Equipment)
increasing area ratio A. Fan
c. Static pressure decreases with Mach B. Blower
number C. Centrifugal air compressor
d. Area ratio decreases in the flow D. Axial flow air compressor
direction
List - II (Pressure Ratio)
40. Which one of the following statements is
1. 1.1
correct when saturation pressure of water
vapour increases? 2. 2.5
a. Saturation temperature decreases 3. 4
b. Enthalpy of evaporation decreases 4. 10
c. Enthalpy of evaporation increases Codes;
d. Specific volume change of phase A B C D
increases a. 2 1 3 4
41. Blade erosion in steam turbines takes place b. 1 2 3 4
a. Due to high temperature steam c. 1 2 4 3
b. Due to droplets in steam d. 2 1 4 3
c. Due to high rotational speed 45. Stalling phenomena in an axial flow
d. Due to high flow rate compressor stage is caused due to which
one of the following?
42. Use of maximum pressure ratio,
corresponding to maximum to minimum a. Higher mass flow rate than the
cycle temperature ratio in case of Joule designed value
cycle gives which one of the following? b. Lower mass flow rate than the
designed value
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c. Higher mass flow rate or non- a. Curve A is for gray body, Curve B is
uniformity in the blade profile for black body, and Curve C is for
d. Lower mass flow rate or non- selective emitter
uniformity in the blade profile b. Curve A is for selective emitter, Curve
46. In a multi-stage axial flow compressor B is for black body, and Curve C is for
with equal temperature rise in all stages, gray body
the pressure ratio in the subsequent stages c. Curve A is for selective emitter, Curve
a. Remains constant B is for gray body, and Curve C is for
black body
b. Increases gradually
d. Curve A is for black body, Curve B is
c. Decreases
for gray body, and Curve C is for
d. Increases rapidly selective emitter
47. Consider the following statements in 51. What is the basic equation of thermal
respect of gas turbines: radiation from which all other equations of
1. Supersonic flow leads to decrease in radiation can be derived?
efficiency. a. Stefan - Boltzmann equation
2. Supersonic flow leads to decrease in b. Plancks equation
flow rate.
c. Wiens equation
Which of the statements given above is/are
d. Rayleigh Jeans formula
correct?
52. Which one of the following statements is
a. 1 only
correct?
b. 2 only
For a hemisphere, the solid angle is
c. Both 1 and 2 measured
d. Neither 1 nor 2 a. in radian and its maximum value is .
48. The concentration of pressure pulses b. in degree and its maximum value is
created by an object moving at Mach 180.
number of 0.5 is
c. in steradian and its maximum value is
a. Larger ahead of the object 2.
b. Larger behind the object d. in steradian and its maximum value is
c. Uniform within Mach cone .
d. Uniform outside Mach cone 53. For the radiation between two infinite
49. In a hydraulic coupling, what is the ratio of parallel planes of emissivity 1 and 2
speed of the turbine runner to that of the respectively, which one of the following is
pump impeller to maintain circulatory the expression for emissivity factor?
motion of oil? a. 1 2
a. < 1
1 1
b. = 1 b.
1 2
c. > 1
1
d. Can be any value c.
1 1
50.
1 2
1
d.
1 1
1
1 2
54. What is the radiation intensity in a
Consider the diagram given above. Which particular direction?
one of the following is correct? a. Radiant energy per unit time per unit
area of the radiating surface
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b. Radiant energy per unit time per unit 59. Assertion (A): The power transmitted
solid angle per unit area of the through a pipe is maximum when the loss
radiating surface of head due to friction is equal to one-third
c. Radiant energy per unit time per unit of total head at the inlet.
solid angle per unit projected area of Reason (R): Velocity is maximum when
the radiating surface in the given the friction loss is one-third of the total
direction head at the inlet.
d. Radiant energy per unit time per unit a. Both A and R are individually true and
projected area of the radiating surface R is the correct explanation of A.
in the given direction b. Both A and R are individually true but
55. A refrigerating machine having coefficient R is not the correct explanation of A.
of performance equal to 2 is used to c. A is true but R is false
remove heat at the rate of 1200 kJ/min.
d. A is false but R is true
What is the power required for this
machine? 60. Assertion (A): Blood is a Newtonian fluid.
a. 80kW Reason (R): The rate of strain varies non-
linearly with shear stress for blood.
b. 60kW
a. Both A and R are individually true and
c. 20 kW
R is the correct explanation of A.
d. 10 kW
b. Both A and R are individually true but
56. When the Brayton cycle working in the R is not the correct explanation of A.
pressure limits of P1 and P2 is reversed and
c. A is true but R is false
operated as a refrigerator, what is the ideal
value of COP for such a cycle? d. A is false but R is true
61. Assertion (A): Runaway speed of a turbine
p2 / p1
1
a. 1
is the speed under maximum head at full
1 gate opening when the load is
b.
p2 / p1
1 disconnected suddenly.
1
Reason (R): The various rotating
1 components of the turbine are designed to
c.
p2 / p1
1 /
1 remain safe at the runaway speed.
a. Both A and R are individually true and
d. None of the above
R is the correct explanation of A.
57. The throttling of certain gases may be used
b. Both A and R are individually true but
for getting the refrigeration effect. What is
R is not the correct explanation of A.
the value of Joule-Thomson coefficient ()
for such a throttling process? c. A is true but R is false
a. = 0 d. A is false but R is true
62. Assertion (A): Though head is added
b. = 1
during a polytrophic expansion process for
c. < 1 which > n > 1, the temperature of the gas
d. > 1 decreases during the process.
58. A heat pump works on a reversed Carnot Reason (R): The work done by the system
cycle. The temperature in the condenser exceeds the heat added to the system.
coils is 27 C and that in the evaporator a. Both A and R are individually true and
coils is - 23 C. For a work input of 1 kW, R is the correct explanation of A.
how much is the heat pumped?
b. Both A and R are individually true but
a. 1 kW R is not the correct explanation of A.
b. 5 kW c. A is true but R is false
c. 6 kW d. A is false but R is true
d. None of the above
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63. A Carnot engine uses nitrogen as the a. Ammonia
working fluid ( = 14). The heat supplied b. Freon 12
is 52 kJ and adiabatic expansion ratio 32
c. Helium
1. The receiver temperature is 295 K.
d. Water
What is the amount of heat rejected?
68. Which p v diagram for steam illustrates
a. 11kJ
correctly the isothermal process undergone
b. 13 kJ by wet steam till it becomes superheated?
c. 26 kJ a.
d. 28 kJ
64.

b.

Thermodynamic cycle shown above on the c.

temperature entropy diagram pertains to
which one of the following?
a. Stirling cycle
b. Ericsson cycle
c. Vapour compression cycle d.
d. Brayton cycle
65. Selection of .a refrigerant for a vapour-
compression system depends on which
among the following?
a. Toxicity 69. Consider the following statements
b. Environmental effect 1. A gas with a compressibility factor
c. Saturation pressure temperature more than 1 is more compressible than
relationship a perfect gas.
d. All of the above 2. The x and y axes of the compressibility
chart are compressibility factor on y-
66. Which of the following are intensive axis and reduced pressure on x-axis.
properties?
3. The first and second derivatives of the
1. Kinetic energy pressure with respect to volume at
2. Thermal conductivity critical points are zero.
3. Pressure Which of the statements given above is/are
4. Entropy correct?
Select the correct answer using the code a. 2 and 3 only
given below b. 1 and 3 only
a. 1 and 2 c. 1 and 2 only
b. 2 and 3 only d. 1, 2 and 3
c. 2, 3 and 4 70. Which one of the following relationships
d. 1, 3 and 4 defines the Helmholtz function F?
67. Which one of the following is the fluid a. FH + TS
whose properties in all its three phases are b. F = H - TS
made use of in thermodynamics? c. F = U - TS
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d. F = U + TV d. 300 kJ/kg
71. Consider the following statements in 75.
respect of the Clausius-Clapeyron
equation:
1. It points to one possible way of
measuring thermodynamic
temperature.
2. It permits latent heat of vaporization to Consider the four processes A, B, C and D
be estimated from measurements of shown in the graph given above:
specific volumes of saturated liquid, Match List - I with List - II and select the
saturated vapour and the saturation correct answer using the code given below
temperatures at two nearby pressures. the lists:
3. It does not apply to changes from solid List - I (Processes shown in the graph)
to the liquid phase and from solid to A. A
the vapour phase.
B. B
Which of the statements given above are
C. C
correct?
D. D
a. 1, 2 and 3
List - II (Index n in the equation pvn =
b. 1 and 2 only
Const)
c. 2 and 3 only
1. 0
d. 1 and 3 only
2. 1
72. Assigning the basic dimensions to mass,
3. 1.4
length, time and temperature respectively
as M, L, T and (Temperature), what are 4.
the dimensions of entropy? Codes;
a. M L T-2 A B C D
b. M L2 T-1 -1 a. 4 2 3 1
c. M L2 T-2 -1 b. 1 2 3 4
d. M L3 T2 -1 c. 1 3 2 4
73. Which thermodynamic property is d. 4 3 2 1
evaluated with the help of Maxwell 76. Which one of the following is correct?
equations from the data of other The cyclic integral of (Q - W) for a
measurable properties of a system? process is
a. Enthalpy a. positive
b. Entropy b. negative
c. Latent heat c. zero
d. Specific heat d. unpredictable
74. A fluid flowing along a pipe line 77. Which one of the following is correct on
undergoes a throttling process from 10 bar the basis of the second law of
to 1 bar in passing through a partially open thermodynamics?
valve. Before throttling, the specific
volume of the fluid is 0.5 m3/kg and after a. For any spontaneous process, the
throttling is 2.0 m3/kg. What is the change entropy of the universe increases
in specific internal energy during the b. S = qrev / T at constant temperature
throttling process? c. Efficiency of the Stirling cycle is more
a. Zero than that of a Carnot cycle
b. 100 kJ/kg d. E = q + w
c. 200 kJ/kg (the symbols have their usual meaning)
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78. An insulated tank initially contains 0.25 kg a. 0.6
of a gas with an internal energy of 200 b. 0.65
kJ/kg. Additional gas with an internal
c. 0.7
energy of 300 d/kg and an enthalpy of 400
Id/kg enters the tank until the total mass of d. 0.75
gas contained is 1 kg. What is the final 82. If B is the centre of buoyancy, G is the
internal energy (in Id/kg) of the gas in the centre of gravity and M is the metacentre
tank? of a floating body, the body will be in
a. 250 stable equilibrium if
b. 275 a. MG = 0
c. 350 b. M is below G
d. None of the above c. BG = 0
79. Match List - I with List - II and select the d. M is above G
correct answer using the code given below 83. The metacentric height of a passenger ship
the lists is kept lower than that of a naval or a
List - I (Type of Thermometer) cargo ship because
A. Mercury-in-glass a. Apparent weight will increase
B. Thermocouple b. Otherwise it will be neutral
equilibrium
C. Thermistor
c. It will decrease the frequency of
D. Constant volume gas
rolling
List - II (Thermometric Property)
d. Otherwise it will sink and be totally
1. Pressure immersed
2. Electrical resistance 84. An open circular cylinder 12 m high is
3. Volume filled with a liquid to its top. The liquid is
4. Induced electric voltage given a rigid body rotation about the axis
of the cylinder and the pressure at the
Codes;
centre line at the bottom surface is found
A B C D to be 0.6 m of liquid. What is the ratio of
a. 1 4 2 3 volume of liquid spilled out of the cylinder
b. 3 2 4 1 to the original volume?
c. 1 2 4 3 a. 1/4
d. 3 4 2 1 b. 3/8
80. Which one of the following statements is c. 1/2
correct? d. 3/4
a. Compressibility factor is unity for ideal 85. Which one of the following is the correct
gases statement?
b. Compressibility factor is zero for ideal Streamline, path line and streak line are
gases identical when the
c. Compressibility factor is lesser than a. flow is steady
unity for ideal gases b. flow is uniform
d. Compressibility factor is more than c. flow velocities do not change steadily
unity for ideal gases with time
81. A wooden rectangular block of length l is d. flow is neither steady nor uniform
made to float in water with its axis
86. In a cylindrical vortex motion about a
vertical. The centre of gravity of the
vertical axis, r1 and r2 are the radial
floating body is 0.15 l above the centre of
distances of two points on the horizontal
buoyancy. What is the specific gravity of
plane (r2 > r1). If for a given tangential
the wooden block?
fluid velocity at r1, the pressure difference
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between the points in free vortex is one-
half of that when the vortex is a forced
one, then what is the value of the ratio
(r2/r1)?
a. 3/ 2
b. 2 A cylindrical object is rotated with
c. 3/2 constant angular velocity about its
d. 3 symmetry axis in a uniform flow field of
an ideal fluid producing streamlines as
2 2 shown in the figure given above. At which
87. The relation 0 for an
x 2 y 2 point(s), is the pressure on the cylinder
irrotational flow is known as which one of surface maximum?
the following? a. Only at point 3
a. Navier-Stokes equation b. Only at point 2
b. Laplace equation c. At points 1 and 3
c. Reynolds equation d. At points 2 and 4
d. Eulers equation 91. Which one of the following statements is
88. Which one of the following stream correct for reciprocating air compressor?
functions is a possible irrotational flow a. Its volumetric efficiency increases with
field? increasing clearance ratio
a. y 2 x 2 b. Its volumetric efficiency increases with
increasing pressure ratio
b. Ax 2 y 2
c. Its volumetric efficiency does not vary
c. A sin xy with change in clearance ratio and
pressure ratio
d. Ax By 2
d. Its volumetric efficiency decreases
89. Match List - I with List -II and select the with increasing clearance ratio and
correct answer using the code given below pressure ratio, both
the lists 92. Piston compression rings are made of
List - I (Condition) which one of the following?
A. Existence of stream function a. Cast iron
B. Existence of velocity potential b. Bronze
C. Absence of temporal variations c. Aluminium
D. Constant velocity vector d. White metal
List - II (Regulating Fact) 93. Which one of the following
1. Irrotationality of flow thermodynamic processes approximates
the steaming of food in a pressure cooker?
2. Continuity of flow
a. Isenthalpic
3. Uniform flow
b. Isobaric
4. Steady flow
c. Isochoric
Codes;
d. Isothermal
A B C D
94. For a conventional S.I. engine, what is the
a. 4 3 2 1
value of fuel-air ratio in the normal
b. 2 1 4 3 operating range?
c. 4 1 2 3 a. 0.056 0.083
d. 2 3 4 1 b. 0.083 0.56
90. c. 0.0056 0.83
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d. 0.056 0.83 The turbine of the turbo-prop engine as
95. The Cetane number of automotive diesel compared to that of the turbojet engine is
fuel used in India is in which one of the a. similar
following ranges? b. smaller
a. 3040 c. bigger
b. 4150 d. unpredictable
c. 51 60 100. Which one of the following automobile
d. 61 70 exhaust gas pollutants is a major cause of
96. The delay period in CI engine depends photochemical smog?
upon which of the following? a. CO
a. Temperature and pressure in the b. FK
cylinder at the time of injection c. NOx
b. Nature of the fuel mixture strength d. SOx
c. Relative velocity between the fuel 101. The Orsat apparatus, which gives
injection and air turbulence pressure of volumetric percentage of four constituents
residual gases of diy flue gas, is arranged for absorption
d. All of the above of three gases and the fourth content being
97. Match List - I with List -II and select the obtained by difference.
correct answer using the code given below Match List - I with List -II and select the
the lists correct answer using the code given below
List - I (SI Engine Operational Mode) the lists:
A. Idling List - I (Gases)
B. Cruising A. Carbon dioxide
C. Maximum Power B. Carbon monoxide
D. Cold starting C. Oxygen
List-II (A/F Ratio Supplied by the D. Nitrogen
Carburetor) List - II (Solution for Absorption/By
1. 3 difference)
2. 10 1. By difference
3. 13 2. Caustic soda
4. 16 3. Pyrogallic acid
5. 20 4. Cuprous chloride
Codes; Codes;
A B C D A B C D
a. 2 4 5 1 a. 2 1 4 3
b. 4 5 3 2 b. 4 3 2 1
c. 2 4 3 1 c. 2 3 4 1
d. 4 5 3 1 d. 4 1 2 3
98. What is the main objective of 102.
supercharging of the engine?
a. To reduce the mass of the engine per
brake power
b. To reduce space occupied by engine
Which one of the following is represented
c. To increase the power output of engine by the molecular structure of the paraff1n
d. All of the above family of hydrocarbon fuel given above,
99. Which one of the following is correct? for an IC engine?
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a. Ethane List -II (Variable to be measured)
b. Propane 1. Discharge
c. Butane 2. Rotational speed
d. Hexane 3. Velocity fluctuations
103. Uranium 238 is represented as 92U238. 4. Stagnation pressure
What does it imply? Codes;
a. It has 92 protons and 146 neutrons A B C D
b. It has 146 protons and 92 electrons a. 4 3 2 1
c. It has 92 protons and 238 neutrons b. 3 4 2 1
d. It has 92 neutrons and 238 protons c. 4 3 1 2
104. For a pure substance, what are the d. 3 4 1 2
numbers of the thermodynamic degree of
108. An orifice meter, having an orifice of
freedom for saturated vapour and
diameter d is fitted in a pipe of diameter D.
superheated vapour, respectively?
For this orifice meter, what is the
a. 1 and 1 coefficient of discharge Cd?
b. 1 and 2 a. A function of Reynolds number only
c. 2 and 1 b. A function of d/D only
d. 2 and 2 c. A function of d/D and Reynolds
105. One kg of ice at 0C is completely melted number
into water at 0C at 1 bar pressure. The d. Independent of d/D and Reynolds
latent heat of fusion of water is 333 kJ/kg number
and the densities of water and ice at 0C
109. The velocity of a water stream is being
are 9990 kg/m3 and 9160 kg/m3,
measured by a L-shaped Pitot-tube and the
respectively. What are the approximate
reading is 20 cm. Then, what is the
values of the work done and energy
approximate value of velocity?
transferred as heat for the process,
respectively? a. 196 m/s
a. - 94 J and 333.0 kJ b. 20 m/s
b. 94 J and 333.0 kJ c. 98 m/s
c. 333.0 kJ and - 94 J d. 20 cm/s
d. None of the above 110. Which one of the following conditions will
linearize the Navier Stokes equations to
106. Velocity for flow through a pipe, measured
make it amenable for analytical solutions?
at the centre is found to be 2 m/s.
Reynolds number is around 800. What is a. Low Reynolds number (Re << 1)
the average velocity in the pipe 9 b. High Reynolds number (Re >> 1)
a. 2 m/s c. Low Mach number (M << 1)
b. 17 m/s d. High Mach number (M >> 1)
c. 1 m/s 111. The head loss in turbulent flow in pipe
d. 05 m/s varies
107. Match List - I with List-II and select the a. Directly as the velocity
correct answer using, the code given below b. Inversely as the square of the velocity
the lists c. Inversely as the square of the diameter
List - I (Measuring Instrument) d. Approximately as the square of the
A. Hot-wire anemometer velocity
B. Pitot-tube 112. A ships model, with scale 1 : 100, has a
C. V-notch weir wave resistance of 10 N at its design
D. Tachometer
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speed. What is the corresponding a. N
Prototype wave resistance in kN? b. N2
a. 100 c. N3
b. 1000 d. N4
c. 10000 117. The vanes of a centrifugal pump are
d. Cannot be determined because of generally
insufficient data a. Radial
113. In a fluid machine, the relevant parameters b. Curved backward
are volume flow rate, density, viscosity,
c. Curved forward
bulk modulus, pressure difference, power
consumption, rotational speed and d. Twisted
characteristic dimension. Using the 118. The use of a draft tube in a reaction type
Buckingham pi () theorem, what would water turbine helps to
be the number of independent non- a. Prevent air from entering
dimensional groups?
b. Increase the row rate
a. 3
c. Convert the kinetic energy to pressure
b. 4 energy
c. 5 d. Eliminate eddies in the downstream
d. None of the above 119. Consider the following statements:
114. Across a normal shock wave in a 1. The phenomenon of lift produced by
converging-diverging nozzle for adiabatic imposing circulation over a doublet in
flow, which of the following relations are a uniform flow is known as Magnus
valid? effect.
a. Continuity and energy equations, 2. The path-deviation of a cricket ball
equation of state, isentropic relation from its original trajectory is due to the
b. Energy and momentum equations, Magnus effect.
equation of state, isentropic relation Which of the statements given above is/are
c. Continuity, energy and momentum correct?
equations, equation of state a. 1 only
d. Equation of state, isentropic relation, b. 2 only
momentum equation, mass
c. Both 1 and 2
conservation principle
d. Neither 1 nor 2
115. Which one of the following statements is
correct about the Fanno flow? 120. The specified speed (NS) of a water turbine
is expressed by which one of the following
a. For an initially subsonic flow, the
equations?
effect of friction is to decrease the
Mach number towards unity N p
a. Ns
b. For an initially supersonic flow, the H 5/4
effect of friction is to increase the N p
Mach number towards unity b. N s
H 3/4
c. At the point of maximum entropy, the
Mach number is unity N Q
c. Ns
d. Stagnation pressure always increases H 5/4
along the Fanno line N Q
116. The power absorbed by a hydrazine pump d. N s
H 3/4
is directly proportional to which one of the
following?
(Where N is the rotational speed of the
pump)