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Robust metamodels for accurate quantitative estimation of turbulent flow in pipe bends

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Pipe bends are inevitable in industrial piping systems, turbomachinery, heat exchangers, etc. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which is commonly employed to understand the flow behavior in such systems has very accurate estimation but is computationally cost intensive. Thus, in this paper, an efficient computational approach for such computationally expensive problems is presented. Using genetic programming (GP), metamodels are built using a small number of samples points from the CFD data. These GP metamodels are then shown to be able to replace the actual CFD models with considerable accuracy. The applicability and suitability of the GP metamodels are validated using a variety of statistical metrics on the training as well as independent test data. It is shown that the use of metamodels leads to significant savings in computational cost.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, 600 062, India

    N. Ganesh

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Howrah, 711 103, India

    P. Dutta & K. Kalita

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MPSTME SVKM’S Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Shirpur, 425 405, India

    M. Ramachandran

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, Majhitar, 737136, India

    A. K. Bhoi

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Ganesh, N., Dutta, P., Ramachandran, M. et al. Robust metamodels for accurate quantitative estimation of turbulent flow in pipe bends. Engineering with Computers 36, 1041–1058 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-019-00748-7

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