Modeling of thermal performance of a cooling tower using an artificial neural network

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 73-76

  Islamoglu, Yasar ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERRORS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VENTILATION;

MASS FLOW RATES; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MEAN RELATIVE ERRORS (MRE); NEURONS;

COOLING TOWERS;

EID: 17444383138     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630590916301     Document Type: Article

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