The application of soft computing models and empirical formulations for hydraulic structure scouring depth simulation: a comprehensive review, assessment and …

A Sharafati, M Haghbin, D Motta, ZM Yaseen - Archives of computational …, 2021 - Springer
Prediction of scouring characteristics is one of the major issues in hydraulic and hydrology
engineering. Over the past five decades, numerous empirical formulations (EFs), based on …

Estimating the density of hybrid nanofluids for thermal energy application: Application of non-parametric and evolutionary polynomial regression data-intelligent …

M Jamei, M Karbasi, M Mosharaf-Dehkordi… - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
There is no doubt that density is one of the most crucial thermophysical properties of hybrid
nanofluids in thermal energy applications. Various research papers have been devoted to …

On the applicability of maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform integrated with MARS and M5 model tree for monthly pan evaporation prediction

A Ghaemi, M Rezaie-Balf, J Adamowski, O Kisi… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate pan evaporation (E pan) prediction is a critical issue in water resources
management, particularly when designing and managing rural water resource systems, and …

Passive sonar target classification using multi-layer perceptron trained by salp swarm algorithm

M Khishe, H Mohammadi - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to the variability of the radiated signal of the sonar targets, passive sonar target
classification is a challenging problem in the real world application. Adaptive Mel-frequency …

Estimation of time dependent scour depth around circular bridge piers: application of ensemble machine learning methods

S Kumar, MK Goyal, V Deshpande, M Agarwal - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Scour is a major issue which impacts the life of a hydraulic structure. In this work, we have
considered a bridge as an example of a hydraulic structure. Scour depth increases or …

Recent advances in the prediction of thermophysical properties of nanofluids using artificial intelligence

M Jamei, Z Said - Hybrid Nanofluids, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been widely welcomed due to the
weakness of traditional regression-based methods and their low accuracy in nonlinear …

NF-GMDH-Based self-organized systems to predict bridge pier scour depth under debris flow effects

M Najafzadeh, F Saberi-Movahed… - Marine Georesources …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Existence of debris structures inevitably ascends the rate of scour process around bridge
piers and flow area not only lead into remarkable deviation of flow but also increase the …

Indirect estimation of swelling pressure of expansive soil: GEP versus MEP modelling

FE Jalal, M Iqbal, M Ali Khan, BA Salami… - … in Materials Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, detailed trials were undertaken to study the variation in genetic parameters in
order to formulate more robust predictive models using gene expression programming …

Comparative analysis of GMDH neural network based on genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization in stable channel design

S Shaghaghi, H Bonakdari, A Gholami, I Ebtehaj… - Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Predicting the behavior and geometry of channels and alluvial rivers in which erosion and
sediment transport are in equilibrium is among the most important topics relating to river …

Simulation of the depth scouring downstream sluice gate: The validation of newly developed data-intelligent models

A Sharafati, A Tafarojnoruz, M Shourian… - Journal of Hydro …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sluice gate is a common tool to regulate water conveyance systems like irrigation channels
or pipelines. The interaction between the flow and sediment particles downstream of the …