Keywords and phrases: cooling tower, nanofluid, heat transfer, FES.
Received: November 3, 2020; Accepted: December 30, 2020; Published: January 22, 2021
How to cite this article: Habibur Rahman, Altab Hossain and Mohammad Ali, Heat transfer performance prediction of a cooling tower with nanofluid using fuzzy expert system, JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 22(1) (2021), 1-12. DOI: 10.17654/HM022010001
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