H. Suroso,"murase et al., INVERSE TECHNIQUE FOR ANALYSIS OF CONVECTIVE HEAT-TRANSFER OVER THE SURFACE OF PLANT CULTURE VESSEL, Transactions of the ASAE, 39(6), 1996, pp. 2277-2282
A practical method to determine the forced convective heat transfer co
efficient over the plant culture vessel was developed. A finite elemen
t neural network inverse technique was used to determine parameter val
ues of the Nusselt equation, which, in turn, is needed to calculate th
e forced convective heat transfer coefficient. The values of the force
d convective heat transfer coefficient obtained by the proposed method
were then used for the finite element calculation. Thereby, the tempe
rature distribution inside a plant culture vessel was simulated. Agree
ment was obtained between the finite element results and experimentall
y measured temperature distribution inside the plant culture vessel.