Viscosity of carbon nanotube suspension using artificial neural networks with principal component analysis

This paper applies the model including back-propagation network (BPN) and principal component analysis (PCA) to estimate the effective viscosity of carbon nanotubes suspension. The effective viscosities of multiwall carbon nanotubes suspension are examined as a function of the temperature, nanoparticle volume fraction, effective length of nanoparticle and the viscosity of base fluids using artificial neural network. The obtained results by BPN–PCA model have good agreement with the experimental data.