An expert system for predicting Manning's roughness coefficient in open channels by using gene expression programming

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1343-1349

  Azamathulla, H Md ^a   Ahmad, Z ^b   Ab Ghani, Aminuddin ^a  

^a RIVER ENGINEERING AND URBAN DRAINAGE RESEARCH CENTRE REDAC   (Malaysia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Friction coefficient; Genetic programming; Manning's equation; Neural networks; Open channel

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROGRAMMING; MANNING'S EQUATIONS; MANNING'S ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; OPEN CHANNELS; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT;

ESTIMATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 84884816999     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-012-1078-z     Document Type: Article

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