In this article, thermal conductivity data of aqueous nanofluids of CuO have been modeled through one of the instruments of empirical data modeling. The input data of 5 different volume fractions of nanofluid obtained in four temperatures
Keywords nanofluids, fuzzy networks, thermal conductivity, ANFIS
IntroductionIncrease in energy cost in long time and growing need for energy have made scientists look for ways to conserve energy. One way for conserving energy in heat transfer field is to use operating fluids of heat transfer with better and more efficient transfer properties. Around 20 years ago, Choi [1] in his report proposed his solution for this problem by introducing suspensions called nanofluids. After scientists' familiarity with these fluids, a great deal of attention was drawn to them. When many researchers of heat transfer and mass field observed nanofluids potential in reducing energy consumption, they embarked on their researches on these new fluids and thousands of scientific articles in this field have been published so far.These articles have different subjects such as nanofluids thermal conductivity [2][3][4][5][6][7], viscosity [8][9][10][11], heat transfer coefficient [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and the other subjects about nanofluids.In addition to experimental researches, a large number of analytical and numerical researches have been conducted on this field. Beyond this level, some researchers have begun studies on experimental data modeling. These researches are conducted with the purpose of nanofluids behavior modeling in thermophysical and hydrodynamic terms.A report of the studies conducted to model nanofluids behavior is provided in Table 1.In this article, thermal behavior of aqueous nanofluids containing CuO nanoparticles has been modeled by ANFIS network. The nanofluids were prepared through a two-step method and the thermal conductivity data were measured based on previous work [21,22] in five volume fractions and four temperatures and the modeling results were compared with experimental data. It should be noted that in this article Sugeno method has been used for modeling the data through ANFIS network. Based on the author's knowledge, there are no similar studies in literature on modeling the thermal conductivity by Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS).