GATE 2024 Chemical Engineering, Q33 · Fluid Mechanics
The correct answer is 0.019 to 0.021.
Question
Consider the steady, uni-directional, fully-developed, pressure-driven laminar flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid through a circular pipe of inner radius 5.0 cm. The magnitude of shear stress at the inner wall of the pipe is At a radial distance of 1.0 cm from the pipe axis, the magnitude of the shear stress, in rounded off to 3 decimal places, is ______
Official answer: 0.019 to 0.021
Why
GATE 2024 official key: 0.019 to 0.021. For laminar pipe flow, shear stress varies linearly with radius:
Explanation cross-checked for consistency. Final answer matches the official IIT answer key.