The impact of objective function formulations on the optimal calibration of QUAL2E

World Water Congress 2005: Impacts of Global Climate Change - Proceedings of the 2005 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 343-

  Goktas, R K ^a   Aksoy, A ^a,b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ASCE ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Calibration; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; QUAL2E; Verification; Water quality modeling

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION FORMULATIONS; OPTIMAL CALIBRATION; REAERATION COEFFICIENT; WATER QUALITY MODELING;

CALIBRATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; VERIFICATION;

WATER QUALITY;

EID: 37249081526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40792(173)343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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