A Computational Intelligence-Based Genetic Programming Approach for the Simulation of Soil Water Retention Curves

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 497-513

  Garg, Ankit ^a   Garg, Akhil ^b   Tai, K ^b   Barontini, S ^c   Stokes, A ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Envelope potential; Multi gene genetic programming; Soil water retention curves; Swelling soils

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLAY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; SOIL MECHANICS;

DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; ENVELOPE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; MULTI-GENE GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SOIL WATER RETENTION; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; SWELLING SOILS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION; WATER STRESS;

EID: 84901986976     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-014-0313-8     Document Type: Article

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