NEURAL–NETWORK–BASED ALGORITHMS OF HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS FOR OVERLAND FLOW
2002
This study presents a series of algorithms developed to estimate hydraulic roughness coefficients for overland flow.
The algorithms are combinations of neural networks that use surface configuration parameters and the local flow Reynolds
number as inputs, and provide an estimate of the roughness coefficient (Darcy–Weisbach, Manning, or Chezy). Results
presented here show that as new neural networks are combined into the stacked algorithm, the estimate errors become
gradually smaller. The Final Prediction Error index has been used to identify the optimum network size. Additionally, the
dataset used to develop the neural networks, developed from measurements taken at approximately equal Reynolds number
intervals, has been found to benefit the algorithms predicting Chezy coefficients. The scarcity of data points in some regions
of the output space for the Darcy–Weisbach and Manning models caused a reduction in the predictability of the algorithms
for these regions and prevented the use of more complex neural networks. The algorithms have been tested for a wide range
of input variables in a detailed sensitivity analysis and have produced reasonable results in all cases.
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