Predicting the viscosity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/water nanofluid by developing an optimal artificial neural network based on experimental data

Afrand, M. and Ahmadi Nadooshan, A. and Hassani, M. and Yarmand, H. and Dahari, M. (2016) Predicting the viscosity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/water nanofluid by developing an optimal artificial neural network based on experimental data. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 77. pp. 49-53. ISSN 0735-1933, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2016.07.008.

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Abstract

Regarding the viscosity of the fluids which is an imperative parameter for calculating the required pumping power and convective heat transfer, based on experimental data, an optimal artificial neural network was designed to predict the relative viscosity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/water nanofluid. Solid volume fraction and temperature were used as input variables and relative viscosity was employed as output variable. Accurate and efficient artificial neural network was obtained by changing the number of neurons in the hidden layer. The dataset was divided into training and test sets which contained 80 and 20% of data points respectively. The results obtained from the optimal artificial neural network exhibited a maximum deviation margin of 0.28%. Eventually, the ANN outputs were compared with results obtained from the previous empirical correlation and experimental data. It was found that the optimal artificial neural network model is more accurate compared to the previous empirical correlation.

Item Type: Article
Funders: High Impact Research Grant “UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/23”
Uncontrolled Keywords: MWCNTs/water nanofluid; Relative viscosity; Optimal artificial neural network; Margin of deviation
Subjects: T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2017 02:13
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2017 02:13
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/18077

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