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Bernoulli's Equation & Flow
GATE 2015
Easy
The Blasius equation related to boundary layer theory is a
- Athird-order linear partial differential equation
- Bthird-order nonlinear partial differential equation
- Csecond-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation
- third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation
Explanation
The Blasius equation (2f'''+ff''=0, from the similarity-transformed laminar flat-plate boundary-layer equations) is a third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation in the similarity variable.
Source: GATE ME 2015 (Session 1) (2015)
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