1. CFD is the third approach for fluid flow analysis.

What are the other two

approaches?
a) Theoretical and experimental
b) Physical and Mathematical
c) Numerical and experimental
d) Experimental and physical
2. Which among the following is a reason why we do not completely rely
upon ground tests for analysing fluid dynamics?

a) Three-dimensional flows cannot be analysed

b) Facilities do not exist in all fight regimes

c) The output generated is not as accurate as theoretical analysis

d) Long run-time

3. When were the foundations of experimental fluid dynamics laid?

a) 19th century
b) 18th century
c) 16th century
d) 17th century
4. This invention of the 20th century and accurate numerical methods have
revolutionized the way we analyse Fluid Dynamics.
a) High-speed digital computers
b) Personal computers
c) Submarines
d) Rocketry
5. CFD can be used to ___________ the experimental results.
a) Improve
b) Replace
c) Interpret
d) Convert
6. CFD carries out ___________ experiments.
a) Observational
 b) Analytical
c) Field
d) Numerical
7. ___________ technique is used in a wind tunnel to find whether the flow is
laminar or turbulent.
a) Pressure sensitive paint
b) Force measurement
c) Flow visualization
d) Quantitative
8. In the early days, CFD simulations were limited to two-dimensional
analyses. Three-dimensional analyses could not be performed because of
_________
a) Complex mathematical models were not resolved
b) Governing equations were not developed for three-dimensions
c) Approximations for three-dimensions did not exist
d) The type of computers and algorithms that existed
9. For which of the following purposes can an automobile company not use
the CFD tool?
a) Study heat transfer between its parts
b) Increase aerodynamic performance
c) Increasing load capacity
d) Increasing fuel economy
10. 6. Which of these models would be the best for flow over a submarine?
a) 3-D Navier-Stokes equation for compressible flow without a turbulence
model
b) 3-D Navier-Stokes equation for incompressible flow without a
turbulence model
c) 3-D Navier-Stokes equation for compressible flow with a turbulence
model
d) 3-D Navier-Stokes equation for incompressible flow with a turbulence
model
11. What is the disadvantage in predicting a complex problem with a very
limited objective in CFD?
 a) Time-consuming
b) Impossible to solve
c) Slower
d) Expensive
12. CFD can give ____________ results than experiments.
a) Detailed
b) Accurate
c) Reliable
d) Approximate
13. Which of these plots are irrelevant to CFD post-processing?
a) Contour plots
b) Vector plots
c) xy plots
d) Bar plots
14. Is adaptive meshing possible in current CFD packages? If yes, which
software offers it?
a) No
b) Yes, ANSYS Fluent 12.0
c) Yes, PHOENICS
d) Yes, ANSYS 8.0
15. The Reynolds transport theorem establishes a relationship between
__________ and ___________
a) Control mass system, Control volume system
b) Differential equation, Integral equation
c) Non-conservative equation, Conservative equation
d) Substantial derivative, Local derivative
16. 11. The final equation of Reynolds transport theorem can be used to drive
____________ form of the conservation laws in fixed regions.
a) Eucledian
b) Lagrangian
c) Eulerian
d) Cartesian
17. What are the two major types of boundary conditions?
a) Wall and symmetry
b) Inlet and outlet
c) Dirichlet and Neumann
d) Initial and physical
18. The Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions are _________ and
_________ in mathematical terms.
a) value specified, flux specified
b) flux specified, value specified
c) flux specified, gradient specified
d) value specified, time specified
19. In Dirichlet boundary conditions, the flux values _________
a) can be calculated
b) are unknowns
c) are known
d) are 0
20. Initial conditions are used for __________ problems.
a) time-dependent problems
b) boundary value problems
c) control volume problems
d) finite difference problems
21. Which among these is a combination of value specified and flux specified
boundary conditions?
a) Dirichlet
b) Mixed
c) Neumann
d) Symmetry
22. Which of these is not a combination of Neumann and Dirichlet Boundary
conditions?
a) Cauchy boundary conditions
b) Wall boundary conditions
c) Mixed boundary conditions
d) Robin boundary conditions
23. Usually, in the inlet boundary conditions ___________ are known.
a) gradients of flow properties
b) diffusive fluxes of properties
c) convective fluxes of properties
d) flow properties
24. The diffusive fluxes in the inlet boundary conditions _________
a) are specified
b) can be calculated
c) are not necessary
d) should be approximated
25. If we are solving a k-ε model, the values of k and ε _________
a) are either specified or estimated at the inlet
b) are either specified or estimated at the outlet
c) need not be specified or estimated anywhere
d) are not estimated
26. For a no-slip condition which of these about velocity components is true
near the wall boundary?
a) u=1, v=0, w=0
b) u=0, v=0, w=0
c) u=0, v=1, w=0
d) u=0, v=0, w=1
27. Which of the following applies to a symmetry boundary?
a) There is no flow and no scalar flux across the boundary
b) There are flow and scalar fluxes across the boundary
c) There is no scalar flux but flow is possible across the boundary
d) There is no flow but scalar flux is possible across the boundary
28. A symmetry boundary is treated the same as a wall boundary for this
reason.
a) There is flow across this boundary
b) No convection flux across this boundary
c) There is convection flux across this boundary
d) No flow across this boundary
29. Which of these pose a problem in constant pressure boundaries?
a) Velocity
b) Flow direction
c) Density
d) Heat flux direction
30. For which of these flows, periodic or cyclic boundary conditions are
applicable?
a) External flow over objects
b) Swirling flow inside a cylindrical furnace
c) Free surface flows
d) Buoyancy driven flows.
31. Which of these does not come under partial differential equations?
a) Laplace’s equation
b) Equations of motion
c) 1-D wave equation
d) Heat equation
32. Which of these is not a type of flows based on their mathematical
behaviour?
a) Circular
b) Elliptic
c) Parabolic
d) Hyperbolic
33. Find the nature of the second-order wave equation.
a) Hyperbolic/elliptic
b) Parabolic
c) Hyperbolic
d) Elliptic
34. The classification of PDEs are governed by ________
a) Their highest order derivatives
b) Their least order derivatives
c) The number of terms
d) The constants
35. Find the nature of the one-dimensional heat equation.
a) Circular
b) Elliptic
c) Hyperbolic
d) Parabolic
36. The mathematical classification of inviscid flow equations are different
from that of the viscous flow equations because of __________
a) absence of viscosity coefficients
b) absence of higher order terms
c) absence of convective terms
d) absence of diffusive terms
37. Type of compressible flows depend upon _________
a) free stream pressure
b) free stream density
c) free stream velocity
d) free stream temperature
38. Find the nature of this system.

(1−M2∞)∂u/∂x+∂v/∂y=0,∂u/∂y−∂v/∂x=0.
a) Hyperbolic/elliptic
b) Elliptic
c) Hyperbolic
d) Parabolic
39. The characteristic curves for an elliptic system are ___________
a) real and imaginary
b) both real
c) both imaginary
d) both zeros
40. The solution of elliptic equations depends on ___________
a) one of its boundaries
b) all its boundaries
c) its opposite boundaries
d) its adjacent boundaries
41. Which of these statements is true for elliptic equations?
a) The solution can be approximated in some of the points
b) The solution can be marched from some initial conditions
c) The solution at all points must be carried out simultaneously
d) The solution process should be carried out simultaneously for some
region and then marching can be done
42. Which of these flows is mathematically elliptic?
a) Transient viscous flow
b) Steady viscous flow
c) Steady inviscid flow
d) Transient inviscid flow
43. Which of these are associated with a parabolic equation?
a) Initial and boundary conditions
b) Initial conditions only
c) Boundary conditions only
d) Neither initial conditions nor boundary conditions
44. Supersonic viscous problems _________
a) are always circular
b) cannot be parabolic
c) are parabolic
d) can be parabolized
45. Which of these assumptions are made for parabolizing Navier-Stokes
equations?
a) Viscous terms are neglected
b) Viscous terms with derivatives in the stream-wise direction are
neglected
c) Derivatives in the stream-wise direction are neglected
d) Viscous terms in the stream-wise direction are neglected
46. Which of these is true for hyperbolic equations?
a) They have 2 imaginary characteristic lines
b) They have 1 imaginary characteristic line
c) They have 1 real characteristic line
d) They have 2 real characteristic lines
47. When can we say that a problem is suitable to be solved using CFD?
a) The PDE has no solution
b) The solution to PDE is unique and it depends continuously on the initial
and boundary conditions
c) The PDE has more than one solution
d) The solution to PDE is unique and independent of the initial and
boundary conditions
48. What is the difficulty in modelling supersonic blunt body problem?
a) The PDE cannot be solved
b) A PDE cannot be formed
c) Mixed flow behaviour
d) Boundary conditions cannot be formed
49. What is the problem in modelling flows with high Reynolds number?
a) A mixture of viscous and inviscid flow regions
b) A mixture of subsonic and supersonic flow regions
c) A mixture of elliptic and parabolic flows
d) A mixture of elliptic and hyperbolic flows
50. Under-specification of boundary conditions gives rise to _____________
a) solution equal to zero
b) no solution
c) a unique solution
d) n-number of solutions
51. What happens with the over-specification of boundary conditions?
a) Infinite solutions
b) Unique solutions
c) Unphysical solutions
d) No solution
52. What is the problem in solving flows with Mach numbers around and
above 1?
a) Mach number
b) Compressibility
c) Continuity
d) Pressure
53. Discretization of the physical domain of interest results in __________
a) Boundaries
b) Discretized equations
c) Discrete cells
d) Exponential equations
54. Which of these methods is not a method of discretization?
a) Finite volume method
b) Finite difference method
c) Gauss-Seidel method
d) Spectral element method
55. Discretization of the governing equations result in ___________
a) Integral equations
b) Quasi-linear partial differential equations
c) Partial differential equations
d) Algebraic equations
56. In which of these methods, the differential equation is multiplied by a test
function?
a) Finite difference method
b) Finite volume method
c) Finite element method
d) Spectral element method
57. Consistency of a numerical solution is directly associated with __________
a) convergence
b) stability
c) iterative error
d) discretization error
58. What is the other name for Courant number?
a) CFL number
b) Peclet number
c) Nusselt number
d) Scarborough number
59. Courant number is applicable for __________
a) implicit transient schemes
 b) explicit transient schemes
c) quadratic schemes
d) high-resolution schemes
60. Consistency comes into the picture because of _________
a) McLaurin series expansion
b) Power series expansion
c) Fourier series expansion
d) Taylor series expansion
61. Which of these is used to analyse the stability of a system?
a) Nusselt number
b) Courant number
c) Peclet number
d) Von Neumann’s method
62. Stability is the property of a _________
a) partial differential equation
b) discretized equation
c) discretization process
d) mathematical model
63. A system is said to be stable if _________
a) the results for different boundary and initial conditions are different
b) the results for different boundary and initial conditions are the same
c) the system can be solved for different initial and boundary conditions
d) the result of two consequent iterations are the same
64. It is difficult to analyse the stability of _________
a) non-linear systems without boundary conditions
b) linear systems with boundary conditions
c) non-linear systems with boundary conditions
d) linear systems without boundary conditions
65. In real, how is convergence defined?
a) Variations are accepted
b) When the variation is less than the result
c) When the variation falls below a certain acceptable range
d) When the variation is the same as the result
66. Which of these statements is wrong?
a) Convergence is applicable for iteration processes
b) Convergence is affected by accuracy and efficiency
c) Converged solutions do not vary much with further iterations
d) Converged solutions are exact
67. For small grid sizes, convergence is related to _________
a) truncation error
b) stability
c) consistency
d) boundedness
68. Which of these methods is usually conservative?
a) Finite Difference Method
b) Finite Element Method
c) Finite Volume Method
d) Iterative Method
69. Which of these analyses needs a stretched grid?
a) Transient flow over a flat plate
b) Incompressible flow over a flat plate
c) Viscous flow over a flat plate
d) Subsonic flow over a flat plate
70. Adaptive grids change automatically based on ______________
a) flow field gradients
b) time rate of change of the flow properties
c) grid gradients
d) time rate of change of the grid points
71. Which of these properties are balanced by using adaptive grids?
a) Accuracy and convergence
b) Efficiency and stability
c) Accuracy and stability
d) Accuracy and efficiency
72. What is the least order of accuracy for the second derivatives?
a) first-order
b) third-order
 c) fourth-order
d) second-order
73. Order of accuracy m means _____________
a) as the grid size is reduced, the approximations converge to the exact
solution with an error proportional to m powers of the grid size
b) as the grid size is reduced, the approximations converge to the exact
solution with an error proportional to m times of the grid size
c) as the grid size is reduced, the approximations diverge from the exact
solution with an error proportional to m powers of the grid size
d) as the grid size is reduced, the approximations diverge from the exact
solution with an error proportional to m times of the grid size
74.What is the main disadvantage of explicit schemes in a time-dependent
problem?
a) Marching solution
b) Simultaneous equations
c) Small time-step size
d) Small grid size
75. Implicit time-based problems will result in __________
a) Coupled equations
b) Uncoupled equations
c) Linear equations
d) Non-linear equations
76.Which of these properties limit the time-step size in the explicit schemes?
a) Convergence
b) Stability
c) Consistency
d) Error
77.Consider the one-dimensional heat conduction equation. Apply forward
difference method to approximate time rate and central difference
method to approximate x-derivative. The resulting equation is in
_____________
a) Implicit linear form
b) Explicit linear form
 c) Explicit non-linear form
d) Implicit non-linear form
78.What does the name k-ε model signify?
a) The seven extra transport equations used in the model
b) The variation of k and ε with the flow variables
c) The variation of k with ε
d) The two extra transport equations used in the model
79.____________ and _____________ are used in the k-ε model in addition to k
and ε to formulate the transport equations.
a) Internal thermal energy and turbulent stresses
b) Internal thermal energy and kinetic energy
c) Rate of deformation and turbulent stresses
d) Rate of deformation and kinetic energy
80.The terms accounting for turbulence effects contain ____________
a) Reynolds stresses
b) Turbulent kinetic energy
c) Dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy
d) Length scale terms
81.In high Reynolds number turbulent flows _______________ terms dominate.
a) diffusion terms
b) convection terms
c) viscous stress terms
d) turbulent effect terms
82. The value of turbulent viscosity is fairly close to that of __________
a) Turbulent diffusivity
b) Newton’s viscosity
c) Kinematic viscosity
d) Dynamic viscosity
83. The kinematic turbulent viscosity is __________
a) equal to the product of turbulent length and time scales
b) equal to the product of turbulent length and velocity scales
c) proportional to the product of turbulent length and velocity scales
d) proportional to the product of turbulent length and time scales
84. __________ relates turbulent viscosity and diffusivity.
a) Reynolds number
b) Reynolds analogy
c) Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations
d) Favre-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations
85. What does SGS stress stand for?
a) Sub-grid-scale stress
b) Suitable-grid-scale stress
c) Suitable-grey-scale stress
d) Sub-grey-scale stress
86. What is the order of accuracy of the QUICK scheme?
a) second-order
b) first-order
c) fourth-order
d) third-order
87. Which of these is correct about the QUICK scheme?
a) Stable and bounded
b) Stable and unbounded
c) Unstable and bounded
d) Unstable and unbounded
88. The upwind scheme is _____________
a) conservative but wiggles
b) bounded and conservative
c) bounded but not conservative
d) neither conservative nor bounded
89. The SIMPLE algorithm is a ____________
a) Weighted average method
b) Predictor-corrector method
c) Euler method
d) Heun’s method
90. Which of these characteristics of the PISO algorithm match with the
SIMPLE algorithm?
a) No extra equation
b) Extra equation
c) Under-relaxation factor
d) High convergence