Alexandria Engineering Journal (Sep 2024)

Radial basis kernel harmony in neural networks for the analysis of MHD Williamson nanofluid flow with thermal radiation and chemical reaction: An evolutionary approach

  • Zeeshan Ikram Butt,
  • Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja,
  • Iftikhar Ahmad,
  • Syed Ibrar Hussain,
  • Muhammad Shoaib,
  • Hira Ilyas

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 103
pp. 98 – 120

Abstract

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The current investigative exploration exemplifies the conceptualization of a novel design intelligent computing paradigm based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) by utilizing radial basis function (RBF) to analyze magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Williamson nanofluid two-dimensional flow along a stretchable sheet under the effect of chemical reaction as well as thermal radiation in a porous medium. This newly designed technique is an amalgam of a well-known reliable global solver named genetic algorithms (GAs) and a swift convergence generated local solver named sequential quadratic programming (SQP) used in ANNs by taking RBF as a kernel function i.e. ANNs-RBF-GASQP solver. The PDEs demonstrating the current nanofluid problem flow are transformed into the system of non-linear ODEs through a relevant similarity transformation and subsequently solved using ANNs-RBF-GASQP solver to investigate thermohydraulic properties by manipulating the values of various system parameters present in the ODEs. Moreover, the simulation results show that increasing the heat source parameter leads to a significant decrease in temperature. Additionally, an increase in the porosity parameter causes a decrease in the velocity of nanofluid, as a higher value of porosity increases fluid permeability and greater resistance to flow. The efficacy of the suggested solver is scrutinized through various statistical and convergence analyses.

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