Abstract
Nanofluids are employed in different thermal devices due to their enhanced thermophysical features which lead to noticeable heat transfer augmentation. One of the major reasons of the heat transfer improvement by using the nanofluids is their increased thermal conductivity. Several methods have been applied to estimate this property of nanofluids such as correlations and artificial neural networks (ANNs). In the present paper, group method of data handling (GMDH) and a mathematical correlation are proposed for forecasting the thermal conductivity of nanofluids containing CuO nanoparticles. The inputs of the both models are the base fluids’ thermal conductivities, concentration, temperature and nanoparticle dimension. Comparison of the forecasted data by these two approaches revealed more favorable performance of GMDH. The values of R-squared in the cases where polynomial and ANN were utilized were 0.9862 and 0.9996, respectively. Moreover, the average absolute relative deviation values were 5.25% and 0.881% for the indicated methods, respectively. According to these statistical values, it is concluded that employing the ANN-based regression leads to more confident model for forecasting the TC of the nanofluids containing CuO nanoparticles.
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