Discharge of pollution loads into natural water systems remains a global challenge that
threatens water and food supply, as well as endangering ecosystem services. Natural …

The estimation of drag exerted by vegetation is of great interest because of its importance in
assessing the impact of vegetation on the hydrodynamic processes in aquatic environments …

Accurate calculation of the longitudinal dispersion coefficient (K x) of pollution is essential in
modeling river pollution status. Various equations are presented to calculate the K x using …

Pan evaporation (E p) estimation is important in scheduling and computing irrigation water
requirement. This study evaluated the ability of novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithms …

The complexity of pollutant-mixing mechanism in open channels generates large uncertainty
in estimation of longitudinal and lateral dispersion coefficients (K x and K y). Therefore, K x …

In this paper, a new hybrid model is developed to improve the accuracy in the prediction of
the longitudinal dispersion coefficient () and the derivation of novel optimized explicit …

Estimation of discharge flowing through rivers is an important aspect of water resource
planning and management. The most common way to address this concern is to develop …

Among several indicators for river engineering sustainability, the longitudinal dispersion
coefficient (K x) is the main parameter that defines the transport of pollutants in natural …

A Transient Storage Model (TSM), which considers the storage exchange process that
induces an abnormal mixing phenomenon, has been widely used to analyze solute …

The longitudinal dispersion coefficient (LDC) of river pollutants is considered as one of the
prominent water quality parameters. In this regard, numerous research studies have been …