List of top Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering Questions

Consider an equal-leg angle section cantilever beam subject to a vertical shearing load at the tip where the line of action of the applied vertical force passes through the centroid. This beam will experience
Which of the following statements is true about Finite Element Analysis (FEA)?
The lifting flow over circular cylinder is obtained by the combination of
For a given rotational speed of a rotor of an axial flow compressor, as the fan tip radius increases, the centrifugal stress on the fan blade
Which of the following is usually measured as the angle between the line of 25% chord and a perpendicular to the root chord?
The schadowgraph flow visualization technique depends on
The deflection of the free end of a cantilever beam subjected to a concentrated load at its mid span is given by:
Flow separation is due to
What is the center pressure if the lift coefficient and lift curve slope of an aerofoil of percentage camber 0.6 are 1.02 and 2, respectively?
The function \( y = A \left(1 - \cos\left(\frac{2\pi x}{L}\right)\right) \) is an allowed approximate function for a
Aerodynamic center is defined as point on the airfoil at which
What is the Coefficient of pressure, where velocity at the surface of the cylinder is equal to free stream velocity?
Modified Tsai-Hill theory
The free stream Mach number for which the entire flow around the body is subsonic is called
The semi-span of a rectangular wing of plan form area 8.4 m² is 3.5 m. The aspect ratio of the wing is
The physical principle used for the derivation of momentum equation is
When a nozzle is said to be over expanded?
Which of the following states that the time rate of change of circulation around a closed curve consisting of the same fluid elements is zero?
Which of the following is a barotropic flow?
Shear flow has the same units as
For calorically perfect gas, specific heats \(C_p\) and \(C_v\) are
Pressure gradient in the flow direction
When airfoil thickness decreases, the critical Mach number
A closely coiled helical spring has a stiffness of 8N/mm. If it extends by 5 mm, the energy absorbed is
What is the purpose of supercritical airfoil?