Implementation of artificial neural network technique in the simulation of dam breach hydrograph

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 478-496

  Nourani, Vahid ^a,b   Hakimzadeh, Habib ^c   Amini, Alireza Babaeyan ^c  

^a Dept of Water Eng   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural network; Dam break; Earthen dam breach; Genetic algorithm; Outflow hydrograph

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865040784     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.114     Document Type: Article

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