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Research Papers: Natural and Mixed Convection

# Prediction of Local Heat Transfer in a Vertical Cavity Using Artificial Neutral Networks

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canadampoulad@ryerson.ca

D. Naylor, A. S. Fung

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada

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J. Heat Transfer 132(12), 122501 (Sep 22, 2010) (9 pages) doi:10.1115/1.4002327 History: Received January 07, 2010; Revised June 28, 2010; Published September 22, 2010; Online September 22, 2010

## Abstract

A time-averaging technique was developed to measure the unsteady and turbulent free convection heat transfer in a tall vertical enclosure using a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The method used a combination of a digital high speed camera and an interferometer to obtain the local time-averaged heat flux in the cavity. The measured values were used to train an artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm to predict the local heat transfer. The time-averaged local Nusselt number is needed to study local phenomena, e.g., condensation in windows. Optical heat transfer measurements were made in a differentially heated vertical cavity with isothermal walls. The cavity widths were $W=12.7 mm$, 32.3 mm, 40 mm, and 56.2 mm. The corresponding Rayleigh numbers were about $3×103$, $5×104$, $1×105$, and $2.7×105$, respectively, and the enclosure aspect ratio (H/W) ranged from $A=18$ to 76. The test fluid was air and the temperature differential was about 15 K for all measurements. ALYUDA NEUROINTELLIGENCE (version 2.2) was used to generate solutions for the time-averaged local Nusselt number in the cavity based on the experimental data. Feed-forward architecture and training by the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm were adopted. The ANN was designed to suit the present system, which had 4–13 inputs and one output. The network predictions were found to be in a good agreement with the experimental local Nusselt number values.

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## Figures

Figure 1

Experimental geometry and coordinate system

Figure 2

Steps in the current experiment to calculate Nusselt number

Figure 3

The high speed video camera mounted on a x,y,z positioning stage that is equipped with micrometers

Figure 4

The structure of the feed-forward ANN

Figure 5

Process map of the ANN to predict the local Nusselt number using NEUROINTELLIGENCE

Figure 6

Effects of structure on R2 and the correlation

Figure 7

Scatter plot of the training network B4

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Local Nusselt number distribution predicted by network B4 compared with the experimental data

Figure 9

Performance of different networks

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