Junya Suehiro

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Data-driven modelling of thermal conductivity in electrically aligned PDMS–diamond composites with experimental verification

Publication Name: Applied Thermal Engineering

Publication Date: 2025-12-01

Volume: 280

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Polymer-based composite material optimization is a key technology for achieving the desired thermal management in heat conduction sheets used in electronics and aerospace. Diamond particles are widely used as thermally conductive fillers in a liquid of poly di-methyl siloxane (PDMS) matrix because of their unique thermophysical properties. Electrical alignment is a powerful approach for filler alignment to achieve higher thermal conductivity. Meanwhile, practical experiments require substantial time, resources and consumable energy due to extensive testing. Therefore, it is essential to develop a highly robust predictive model for estimating thermal conductivity. This paper proposes a data-driven-based model that investigates a novel decision tree (DT) regression model for predicting thermal conductivity based on electrical alignment parameters, aiming to identify the optimal experimental conditions that achieve higher thermal conductivity. In this study, electrical alignment parameters, namely voltage, frequency, and rotational speed, are selected as descriptors for modelling and computing thermal conductivity. Correlation and multicollinearity analyses are conducted to evaluate the relationships among these descriptors. Three machine learning approaches, including Decision Tree, Random Forest (RF), and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT), are investigated alongside six empirical regression models. The predictive model-based refined DT achieves high accuracy with the lowest mean square error of 0.0004 and a higher coefficient of determination (R-squared) of 0. 9751on testing data, respectively. This indicates that the model is capable of accurately predicting the thermal conductivity of hybrid nanofluids over a wide range of hybrid nanoparticle combinations with high closeness to the experimental records. This predictive model condition highlights the potential of DT-based method to precisely compute the thermal conductivity of PDMS-diamond composite based on the applied electrical alignment parameters.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.128338