Design of modified structure multi-layer perceptron networks based on decision trees for the prediction of flow parameters in 90° open-channel bends

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 194-209

  Gholami, Azadeh ^a   Bonakdari, Hossein ^a   Zaji, Amir Hossein ^a   Fenjan, Salma Ajeel ^a   Akhtari, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Depth averaged velocity; Experimental study; MLP model; Sharp bend; Water surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961797457     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2015.1128358     Document Type: Article

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