Prediction of thermal conductivity of MWCNT (85)-ZnO (15)/EG hybrid nano-refrigerant using optimized ANN and comparison of its deviation with experimental data and classical model
摘要
In the present paper, ANNs with different neurons considering T and SVF of nanoparticle parameters were applied to evaluate the test set for TC of MWCNT-ZnO (15:85)/EG nanofluid. Nanofluid data were evaluated at SVF = 0.055–1.85% and T = 28–55 °C. MLP ANN with LM training algorithm was applied. MOD versus all ANN data (TCR) is in the range between ± 0.05. R2 is 0.998677. The MSE in the training is less than the other phases and is 1.29364E-06. Also, in the final part, ANN output is compared with measured values and test results. Comparisons show that ANN modeling is more precise in forecasting increased TCR than other methods.