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Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves - Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics - Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves - Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics - Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

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5Years
15Questions
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Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 9 60%
Easy 6 40%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 7 46.7%
MCQ 6 40%
MSQ 2 13.3%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
15 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics
15 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
15 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM) 2026
2 Qs
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2025
4 Qs
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2024
4 Qs
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2023
1 Qs
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2022
4 Qs

Included previous year papers

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PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM) 202620262View paper
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 202520254View paper
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 202420244View paper
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 202320231View paper
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 202220224View paper

All Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves previous year questions

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2022 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2022

Which one of the following combinations of elementary flows will lead to an ideal flow past a deeply submerged circular cylinder with circulation?

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2022 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2022
In a potential flow field, if the stream function \(\psi = xy^2\), then the velocity potential \(\phi\) is
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2022 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2022
A horizontal cylinder of 1.0 m diameter is placed transversely at the aft of a ship and is completely immersed in water. The cylinder rotates at 100 RPM and inflow velocity is 10 m/s. Water density is 1000 kg/m³. Assuming an ideal planar flow, the lift force/unit length acting on the cylinder is _____ kN/m (rounded off to one decimal place).
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2022 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2022
Consider a point source in a uniform flow of velocity \( U = 4 \; \text{m/s} \) along the positive \( x \)-axis as shown in the figure. Assume a two-dimensional steady potential flow. The potential due to the point source is given by \( \log_e(r) \), where \( r^2 = x^2 + y^2 \).
Then the magnitude of the distance \( d \) between the point source and the stagnation point is __________ m (rounded off to two decimal places).

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2023 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2023

A submerged cylinder of diameter 1 m is rotating clockwise at 100 rpm, in a flow with a free stream velocity of 10 m/s. Assuming ideal flow, the number of stagnation points on the cylinder is

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2024 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2024
A uniform flow, a point source of strength $+\sigma$ at $(a,0)$ and a point sink of strength $-\sigma$ at $(-a,0)$ are shown in the figure. The velocity potential $\phi$ resulting from the superposition of these flow fields is given by
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2024 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2024
A propeller disc of diameter 2 m produces a thrust of 88 kN while advancing at a speed of 5 m/s in fresh water of density 1000 kg/m³. Based on the axial momentum theory, the propeller efficiency is ______ % (rounded off to one decimal place).
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2024 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2024

An ocean wave of period 8 s and height 2 m is propagating in the Indian Ocean from south to north. According to linear wave theory, for the wave to be considered as a deep-water wave, the minimum water depth should be _____ m (rounded off to the nearest integer).

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2024 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2024
Consider a circular cylinder of diameter 0.5 m and length 2 m, rotating in clockwise direction at a speed of 100 rpm in a flow of velocity 2 m/s. Assume the density of the fluid as 1.225 kg/m³ and \(\pi = 3.14\). By Kutta-Joukowski theorem, the lift force on the cylinder is _____ N (rounded off to the nearest integer).
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2025 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2025

Which one of the following wave energy spectra is formulated for two peaks?

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2025 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2025

According to linear water wave theory, at a point on the free surface of a regular wave, the phase difference between the free surface elevation and the horizontal water particle acceleration is ______.

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2025 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2025

Choose the correct statement(s) from the following with respect to a ship generated Kelvin wave pattern in deep water.

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2025 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM) 2025
An ocean wave is propagating from deep to shallow water. The wave is approaching the coast at 45° counterclockwise from the shore normal with an initial phase speed of 12.5 m/s. After entering the shallow water, the wave direction becomes 30° counterclockwise from the shore normal.
The phase speed of the wave at the shallow water is __________ m/s (rounded off to one decimal place).
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2026 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM) 2026

The potential flow theory assumes that the flow is ______.

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2026 · Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering · Fluid Mechanics and Marine Hydrodynamics · Potential-flow Hydrodynamics and Surface Waves
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM) 2026
A ship is moving at 10 m/s in head sea condition. A person on board counts the time period between two successive wave crests as π seconds.
The frequency of the incoming wave is ______ rad/s (answer in integer).
Assume g = 10 m/s².
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