Based on the experimental ignition delay results of n-butane/hydrogen mixtures in a rapid compression machine,a Genetic Algorithm(GA)optimized Back Propagation(BP)neural network model is originally developed for ignit...Based on the experimental ignition delay results of n-butane/hydrogen mixtures in a rapid compression machine,a Genetic Algorithm(GA)optimized Back Propagation(BP)neural network model is originally developed for ignition delay prediction.In the BP model,the activation function,learning rate and the neurons number in the hidden layer are optimized,respectively.The prediction ability of the BP model is validated in wide operating ranges,i.e.,compression pressures from 20 to 25 bar,compression temperatures from 722 to 987 K,equivalence ratios from 0.5 to 1.5 and molar ratios of hydrogen(X_(H2))from 0 to 75%.Compared with the BP model,the GA optimized BP model could increase the average correlation coefficient from 0.9745 to 0.9890,in the opposite,the average Mean Square Error(MSE)decreased from 2.21 to 1.06.On the other hand,to assess the BP-GA model prediction ability in the never-seen-before cases,a limited BP-GA model is fostered in the𝑋X_(H2) range from 0 to 50%to predict the ignition delays at the cases of𝑋X_(H2)=75%.It is found that the predicted ignition delays are underestimated due to the training dataset lacking of“acceleration feature”that happened at𝑋X_(H2)=75%.However,three possible options are reported to improve the prediction accuracy in such never-seen-before cases.展开更多
基金The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support to the research provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through the Project of 51922076 and 51706140.
文摘Based on the experimental ignition delay results of n-butane/hydrogen mixtures in a rapid compression machine,a Genetic Algorithm(GA)optimized Back Propagation(BP)neural network model is originally developed for ignition delay prediction.In the BP model,the activation function,learning rate and the neurons number in the hidden layer are optimized,respectively.The prediction ability of the BP model is validated in wide operating ranges,i.e.,compression pressures from 20 to 25 bar,compression temperatures from 722 to 987 K,equivalence ratios from 0.5 to 1.5 and molar ratios of hydrogen(X_(H2))from 0 to 75%.Compared with the BP model,the GA optimized BP model could increase the average correlation coefficient from 0.9745 to 0.9890,in the opposite,the average Mean Square Error(MSE)decreased from 2.21 to 1.06.On the other hand,to assess the BP-GA model prediction ability in the never-seen-before cases,a limited BP-GA model is fostered in the𝑋X_(H2) range from 0 to 50%to predict the ignition delays at the cases of𝑋X_(H2)=75%.It is found that the predicted ignition delays are underestimated due to the training dataset lacking of“acceleration feature”that happened at𝑋X_(H2)=75%.However,three possible options are reported to improve the prediction accuracy in such never-seen-before cases.
