Heat transfer correlations by symbolic regression

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 4352-4359

  Cai, Weihua ^a   Pacheco Vega, Arturo ^b   Sen, Mihir ^a   Yang, K T ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Correlations; Genetic programming; Heat exchanger; Heat transfer; Symbolic regression

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PIPE FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LIQUID FLOW; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PIPE FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746909902     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.04.029     Document Type: Article

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