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Nanofluids are kind of fluids, which have a wide range of applications in different fields such as industry or engineering systems. The present study efforts to find accurate relationships between the convective heat transfer coefficient of the nanofluids containing the silica nanoparticles as a function of Reynolds number, Prandtl number, and mass fraction nanofluid. To that end, a number of seven different models including adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), least square support vector machine (LSSVM), genetic programming (GP), principal component analysis (PCA), and committee machine intelligent system (CMIS) have been implemented according to experimental databases designed for measuring the convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid in circular cross-sectional channels. Results indicated the satisfactory capability of suggested models, especially CMIS model in order to estimate the convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid. The obtained statistical analyses such as the mean square error and R-squared (R 2) for the ANFIS, ANN, SVM, LSSVM, PCA, GP, and CMIS were 380.6671 and 0.9946, 215.062 and 0.9969, 335.748 and 0.9951, 298.88 and 0.9959, 1601.336 and 0.977, 1891.861 and 0.973, and 205.366 and 0.9970 correspondingly. We expect that these suggested models can help engineers who deal with heat transfer phenomenon to have great predictive tools for estimating convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid.




























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Baghban, A., Pourfayaz, F., Ahmadi, M.H. et al. Connectionist intelligent model estimates of convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluids in circular cross-sectional channels. J Therm Anal Calorim 132, 1213–1239 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-017-6886-z
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