Table 1.
Heat exchanger setup specifications.
Fig 1.
An illustration of a shell and tube heat exchanger.
Table 2.
Test conditions of the heat exchanger experiment.
Table 3.
Empirical investigation of the heat exchanger.
Fig 2.
Flow chart.
Fig 3.
Observation plot (A) and biplot (B) of the first two components produced by principal component analysis (PCA) of the shell and tube heat exchangers.
Table 4.
Eigen analysis of the correlation matrix.
Table 5.
Eigenvectors.
Fig 4.
Represents the Normal probability plot, histogram, residuals versus fits and residuals versus order for (a) effectiveness (b) thermal resistance and (c) overall heat transfer coefficient.
Fig 5.
Neural network architecture.
Fig 6.
Experimental and predicted regression of values.
Table 6.
Matrix summary of investigated responses.
Fig 7.
Nftool best training performance.
Fig 8.
NFTool’s training state.
Fig 9.
Nftool error histogram.
Fig 10.
Evaluate regression of values.
Fig 11.
Nftool evaluate error histogram.
Table 7.
Optimal parameters input parameters by nftool-GA.
Fig 12.
Visually represents the Pareto front solutions.
Fig 13.
Iteration versus fitness function.