A Highly Efficient Gene Expression Programming Model for Predicting the Discharge Coefficient in a Side Weir along a Trapezoidal Canal

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 655-666

  Azimi, Hamed ^a   Bonakdari, Hossein ^a   Ebtehaj, Isa ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

discharge coefficient; gene expression programming (GEP); side weir; trapezoidal canal

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014349382     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.2127     Document Type: Article

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