Question 1
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Under which circumstances may the volume rate-of-change entail viscous shear stresses?
Answer
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Never for incompressible flow.
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Always under the Stokes hypothesis.
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Always.
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Never
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None of the other options.
Question 2
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What is true about viscous blockage?
Answer
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All options are correct.
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It corresponds to a massflow reduction in the near-wall region due to the effects of viscosity
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It corresponds to a momentum flux reduction in the near-wall region due to the effects of viscosity.
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It follows from the no-slip condition at the wall due to viscous effects.
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It may be quantified by the displacement and momen-
tum thicknesses of the boundary layer.
Question 3
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Which of the following factors may be held responsible for both advancing turbulent transition and inducing early separation of a boundary layer?
Answer
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An adverse pressure gradient.
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Wall roughness.
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High preturbulence levels in the outer flow.
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High Reynolds number.
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None of the other options.
Question 4
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Laminar boundary layers, as opposed to turbulent,...
Answer
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have lower friction but separate earlier.
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have lower friction and separate later.
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have higher friction and separate earlier
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have higher friction but separate later.
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None of the other options.
Question 5
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Which of the following properties of the Navier-Stokes equations do the Euler equations retain?
Answer
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None of the other options.
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The no-slip condition can be applied on all solid walls.
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They allow computation of friction drag.
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They allow computation of form drag of closed bodies.
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They can anticipate the occurrence of turbulence and
wakes.
Question 6
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Whichofthefollowingtermsofthestreamwisemomentum equation drops under the boundary layer hypothesis?
Question 7
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The boundary layer (BL) integral equations...
Answer
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result from integrating the BL local equations in the wall-normal coordinate over the BL thickness.
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result from integrating the BL local equations along the streamwise coordinate.
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differ for laminar and turbulent BLs.
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result in as many unknowns as there are equations.
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None of the other options.
Question 8
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How is the D’Alembert’s paradox removed and the form drag obtained in an inviscid flow – boundary layer coupling calculation?
Answer
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By solving the inviscid problem for a second time over a body enlarged by the displacement thickness and extended with the wake.
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By directly solving the boundary layer equations.
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The paradox remains no matter what.
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By solving the inviscid problem over the original body.
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The paradox was never there in the first place.
Question 9
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Which of the following inviscid potential flows admit self- similar solutions for the two-dimensional incompressible laminar boundary layer equations?
Question 10
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For the laminar boundary layer developing in the vicinity of a stagnation point...
Answer
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momentum thickness is locally finite and constant.
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displacement thickness grows linearly.
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wall shear stress is locally finite and constant.
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the form factor is larger than for the Blasius solution.
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None of the other options.
Question 11
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Which of the following statements does NOT describe tur- bulent flows?
Answer
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Low energy dissipation.
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Intrinsic three-dimensionality.
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Intrinsically time-dependence.
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Deterministic chaos.
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Enhanced mixing capabilities.
Question 12
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Which of the following methods for solving turbulent flows simulates the large turbulent structures but filters out (and then models) the smaller scales?
Answer
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Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
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Reynolds Averaged Navier-Sokes (RANS).
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Direct Navier-Stokes (DNS).
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Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).
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None of the others.
Question 13
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What is the actual origin of the Reynolds stresses in the RANS equations?
Answer
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Advective momentum transport due to turbulent fluc- tuations.
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Diffusive momentum transport due to enhanced fluid viscosity.
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Turbulent pressure fluctuations.
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Mass conservation in the presence of turbulent fluctu-
ations.
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None of the other options
Question 14
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How do viscous (foto)
compare within an incompressible, statistically twodimensional, turbulent boundary layer (TBL)?
Answer
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mu*(du/dy) prevails in the inmediate vicinity of the wall.
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-densidad·u'·v' (tot adimensional) prevails over the full TBL thickness
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mu*(du/dy) prevails over the full TBL thickness
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-densidad·u'·v' (tot adimensional) prevails in the inmediate vicinity of the wall.
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They compete in size over the full TBL thickness.
Question 15
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What is the sign of the streamwise-wall-normal velocity
fluctuation correlations (u'v') (adimensional todo) within a turbulent boundary
layer?
Answer
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(u'v') (adimensional todo) < 0
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(u'v') (adimensional todo) > 0
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(u'v') (adimensional todo) = 0
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(u'v') (adimensional todo) <0 close to the wall and (u'v') (adimensional todo) >0 far from it.
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(u'v') (adimensional todo) >0 close to the wall and (u'v') (adimensional todo) <0 far from it.
Question 16
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How can lift be estimated for an airfoil immersed in inviscid incompressible flow?
Answer
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By introducing a circulation to enforce the Kutta condition.
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In no way because potential flow is irrotational.
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Enforcing wall impermeability, lift naturally arises
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By enforcing the no-slip condition on the walls to the
potential flow equations.
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None of the other options.
Question 17
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Which statement is true about the lifting problem within
the frame of linear potential theory?
Answer
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The perturbation potential is anti-symmetric in the
vertical coordinate.
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The vertical perturbation velocity is anti-symmetric
in the vertical coordinate.
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Both the vertical and horizontal perturbation velocities are symmetric in the vertical coordinate
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The horizontal perturbation velocity is symmetric in
the vertical coordinate.
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None of the other options are correct.
Question 18
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A problem that aims at computing the pressure distribution given the airfoil shape is known as...
Question 19
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On a finite wing producing lift...
Answer
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None of the other options are correct.
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Wingtip vortices roll from suction to pressure side
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The lift distribution is homogeneous along the span
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There may still be no lift-induced drag
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Streamlines are deflected towards the fuselage on the
pressure side and towards wingtip on the suction side.
Question 20
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Prandtl’s lifting-line theory for finite wings...
Answer
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All options are correct.
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leads to an integro-differential equation for the circulation distribution along the span.
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shows that minimum lift-induced drag is obtained for
an elliptical distribution of circulation along the span.
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is based on assessing the span-dependent effective angle of attack that results from wingtip vortices.
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provides both wing global lift and lift-induced drag
coefficients.
Question 21
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Into which terms may the total rate-of-change of a small
fluid volume be split, provided nonlinear effects are neglected?
Answer
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Translation, rotation, volume change, shear deformation.
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Translation, rotation, volume change.
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Translation, rotation, shear deformation.
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Rotation, volume change, shear deformation.
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Volume change, shear deformation.
Question 22
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Why is the drag on a sphere smaller when the separating
boundary layer is turbulent rather than laminar?
Answer
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Because wake drag dominates and is smaller
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Because friction drag dominates and is smaller.
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Because both wake and friction drag are smaller.
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Because wake drag is zero.
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The assertion is plain wrong. The opposite is true.
Question 23
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23. What is true about the streamwise evolution of a boundary
layer (possibly involving a turbulent transition) developing
on a flat plate?
Answer
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Its momentum thickness grows monotonically
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Its friction coecient decreases monotonically
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Its momentum thickness decreases monotonically.
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Its friction coecient increases monotonically.
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None of the other options.
Question 24
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Which statement is correct under the boundary layer hypothesis?
Answer
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None of the other options.
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Streamwise diffusion outweighs streamwise advection
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Streamwise diffusion outweighs wall-normal diffusion.
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Wall-normal pressure gradients are large.
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Fluid particles slip at the wall.
Question 25
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Which of the following interpretations of the displacement
thickness is plain FALSE?
Answer
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It quantifies the friction drag coefficient to be expected
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It quantifies the deviation of streamlines outside of the
boundary layer
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It quantifies the massflow blockage due to viscous effects.
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It quantifies the amount of wall-normal momentum
that must appear for mass preservation within the
boundary layer.
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All statements are TRUE
Question 26
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26. Which of the following boundary layers is at a higher risk
of separation, all other parameters unaltered?
Answer
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One that has a larger thickness
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One that has a larger outer velocity
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One that is subject to a stronger negative (favorable)
pressure gradient.
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One that is turbulent.
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One that is subject to a milder deceleration of the
outer flow
Question 27
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27. What are the usual assumptions in order to devise an integral method for both laminar and turbulent boundary
layers?
Answer
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H and Cf/2 Re o taken from flat plate values
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H and Cf/2 Re o taken from stagnation point values.
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H and Cf/2 Re o taken from separation profile values.
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H taken from stagnation point and Cf/2 Re o from separation profile values
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H taken from flat plate and Cf/2 Re o from stagnation
point values.
Question 28
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28. Which term of the Navier-Stokes equations is responsible
for the appearance of the Reynolds stresses in the RANS
equations?
Question 29
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29. Which of the following statements is true about the
Reynolds stresses inside a turbulent, statistically twodimensional, incompressible boundary layer?
Question 30
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Pregunta 30 To which of the following regions in a turbulent boundary layer does the near wall hypothesis (constant shear
@⌧/@y ' 0, linear mixing length l ' y+) apply?
Question 31
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31. What does viscosity depend on for Newtonian fluids such
as water or air?
Question 32
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32. Which of the following conditions entails separation of a
two-dimensional flow?
Answer
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Zero wall friction
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Zero wall velocity
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Infinite wall-normal gradient of streamwise velocity
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Zero boundary layer momentum thickness
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Zero boundary layer form factor.
Question 33
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Which momentum transport mechanisms are mainly competing within a laminar boundary layer?
Answer
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Streamwise advection and wall-normal diffusion
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Streamwise diffusion and wall-normal advection
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Streamwise diffusion and streamwise advection.
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Wall-normal advection and wall-normal diffusion.
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Wall-normal and streamwise diffusion.
Question 34
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34. How are the integral boundary layer equations obtained?
Answer
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By integrating the local equations over the boundary
layer thickness.
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By integrating the local equations along the streamwise coordinate.
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By searching for self-similar solutions of the local
equations
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By applying the boundary layer hypothesis to the
Navier-Stokes equations in their integral form.
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By adding whole wheat to the fluid.
Question 35
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35. How does the momentum thickness evolve for a laminar
boundary layer in the close vicinity of a stagnation point?
Answer
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It is finite and constant.
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It remains of negligible size.
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It debuts with a finite value and grows linearly.
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It debuts at zero and grows linearly
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It debuts at infinity and decreases hyperbolically
Question 36
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What can be said about the friction coecient Cf when
comparing growing laminar and turbulent boundary layers (BLs) developing under the same outer velocity conditions?
Answer
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It is higher and decreases slowlier for turbulent BL.
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It is higher and decreases slowlier for laminar BL.
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It is higher but decreases faster for turbulent BL.
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It is higher but decreases faster for laminar BL.
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None of the others.
Question 37
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37. Theoretical-empirical turbulent friction laws result from
the matching of the velocity profile in what regions/layers
of the turbulent boundary layer universal profile?
Answer
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Inner and outer regions
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Viscous sublayer and buffer region
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Buffer region and log-law layer
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Viscous sublayer and log-law layer
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Buffer region and inner region.
Question 38
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38. Which of the following phenomena can be ultimately ascribed to the action of viscosity?
Answer
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All of them
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Lift
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Friction drag
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Wake drag
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Flow separation
Question 39
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39. Which of the following actions might be beneficial in terms
of drag coefficient reduction of a streamlined body (e.g.
flat plate at alpha = 0) with a laminar boundary layer naturally developing on its surface?
Answer
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Preserving laminarity of the boundary layer all the
way down to the trailing edge.
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Artificially triggering turbulent transition in the
boundary layer before it separates.
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Reducing the Reynolds number
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Favouring surface rugosity.
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None of the others.
Question 40
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40. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the boundary layer hypothesis?
Answer
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Negligible streamwise advection
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Wall-normal pressure gradient must cancel.
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The local BL equations are parabolic
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Negligible streamwise diffusion
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Streamwise velocity outweighs wall-normal velocity.
Question 41
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41. When do boundary layers grow faster?
Answer
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In adverse pressure gradient conditions
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In favourable pressure gradient conditions.
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In conditions of accelerated outer flow.
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In conditions of accelerated (decelerated) outer flow if
the boundary layer is laminar (turbulent).
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In adverse (favourable) pressure gradient conditions if
the boundary layer is laminar (turbulent).
Question 42
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Upon averaging which term of the Navier-Stokes equations
does the Reynolds stress tensor arise?
Answer
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Advection term
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Diffusion term.
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Time-derivative term.
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Pressure gradient term.
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None of the others.
Question 43
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43. What is true when comparing solution methods for laminar and turbulent boundary layers (BLs)?
Answer
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The BL integral equations are formally the same.
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The BL local equations are formally the same.
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The Falkner-Skan self-similar solutions apply all the
same, provided that the outer flow is a wedge flow.
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Experimental input is needed for solving both laminar
and turbulent BLs.
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All of the others.