Determining the capability of artificial intelligence in estimating energy dissipation of skimming flow regime at stepped spillways

Document Type : Research Article

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1 assistante proffessor, Agriculture Department, Payame Noor University, Iran

2 Ph.D Student- Hydraulic structures- Dep. of Civil Engineering- University of Sistan and Balouchestan- Zahedan

3 Assitant Professor, Dept. Of Water Sciences Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Jahrom University, Fars, Iran

Abstract

Energy dissipation in stepped spillways is one of the primary goals of such structures. In this study, the accuracy of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Inference System based on the trained Firefly Algorithm utilized for optimization (ANFIS-FA) and the Gene Expression Programming method (GEP), in estimating the energy loss of skimming flow regime over stepped spillways was studied. Also, by performing sensitivity analysis, the importance of input parameters in predicting energy loss for each of the three mentioned methods was investigated. For this purpose, 154 series of experimental data were considered. The input parameters for each method include hydraulic jump, Froude number, Drop number, number of steps, Pseudo bottom slope and the ratio of the critical depth to the height of each step. The results show that all three methods had a higher ability to predict energy loss compared to classical methods based on conventional regression methods. The accuracy of the ANFIS-FA method is slightly higher than the GEP method. The accuracy of the ANN is slightly lower than mentioned methods. However, the highest accuracy is related to the multilayer perceptron ANN with 3 hidden layers with 12, 8 and 7 nodes in each layer, respectively. In all three methods, the most effective parameter was found to be the drop number and the least effective parameter was the bottom slope.

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Amirkabir Journal of Civil Engineering
Volume 53, Issue 9
December 2021
Pages 3897-3912

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