Forecasting Operational Parameters of a Solar Space Heating System using a Novel Multistage Artificial Neural Network

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Farnaz Jamadi ¹ , Behnam Jamali ²

1 - Department of physics, Sirjan university of technology
2 - Mechanical engineering, Sirjan University of Technology

Received: 2017-11-27 Accepted : 2018-04-29 Published : 2018-06-01

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