Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia
2. IT4Innovations, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Abstract
This study provides novel and accurate symbolic regression-based solutions for the calculation of pipe diameter when flow rate and pressure drop (head loss) are known, together with the length of the pipe, absolute inner roughness of the pipe, and kinematic viscosity of the fluid. PySR and Eureqa, free and open-source symbolic regression tools, are used for discovering simple and accurate approximate formulas. Three approaches are used: (1) brute force of computing power, which provides results based on raw input data; (2) an improved method where input parameters are transformed through the Lambert W-function; (3) a method where the results are based on inputs and the Colebrook equation transformed through new suitable dimensionless groups. The discovered models were simplified by the WolframAlpha simplify tool and/or the equivalent Matlab Symbolic toolbox. Novel models make iterative calculus redundant; they are simple for computer coding while the relative error remains lower compared with the solution through nomograms. The symbolic-regression solutions discovered by brute force computing power discard the kinematic viscosity of the fluid as an input parameter, implying that it has the least influence.
Funder
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
Subject
Geometry and Topology,Logic,Mathematical Physics,Algebra and Number Theory,Analysis
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