Comparative analysis to study the Darcy–Forchheimer Tangent hyperbolic flow towards cylindrical surface using artificial neural network: An application to Parabolic Trough Solar Collector

Abstract

Solar thermal collectors convert sunlight into useful thermal energy by absorbing its incoming radiation. Concentrated solar power technologies use the parabolic trough solar collector to collect solar energy with temperatures ranging from 325–700 K. The tangent hyperbolic fluid model is one of the most important non-Newtonian fluid models. Laboratory studies demonstrate that this model accurately predicts the shear thinning phenomenon. In addition, tangent hyperbolic fluid has a better heat transfer performance due to its rheological bearing at various shear rates. The current study investigates the heat transmission performance of Darcy–Forchheimer tangent hyperbolic radiative inclined cylindrical film movement in parabolic trough solar collector with an irregular heat sink/source utilizing the Levenberg–Marquardt technique and backpropagated neural networks. Through the implementation of required transformations, this system is turned into an equivalent nonlinear ordinary differential system. The findings are investigated for Newtonian and tangent hyperbolic fluid cases to understand the rheological characteristics. The outcomes are considered using graphical and mathematical evaluations. Fluids featuring tangent hyperbolic rheological conductivity are obligatory for active rate of heat diffusion. As a consequence, these fluids may be employed in Parabolic Trough Solar Collector for increased heat transmission rate and operational usage of solar energy. Furthermore, We create a dataset using the Runge–Kutta fourth-order shooting technique to create the proposed multilayer perceptron artificial neural network. The data points representing the MoD values are observed to be closely clustered around the zero deviation line. Additionally, it is important to highlight that these data points have relatively small numerical values. Moreover, when calculating the average MoD values for each output, it becomes evident that they are consistently very low.