Investigation of design parameters of a domestic refrigerator by artificial neural networks and numerical simulations

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1678-1689

  Kumlutaş, Dilek ^a   Karadeniz, Ziya Haktan ^a   Avc, Hasan ^a   Özşen, Mete ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Experimentation; Household refrigerators; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

AIR VOLUMES; ANN PREDICTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS; EXPERIMENTATION; MAXIMUM RELATIVE ERRORS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRAINING AND TESTING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EVAPORATORS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 84864433727     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2012.02.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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