Journal
FLOW MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages 19-27Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2015.11.002
Keywords
Limit of deposition; Sediment transport; Sewer; Support vector machine (SVM); Wavelet transform algorithm
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Technical design of sewer systems requires highly accurate prediction of sediment transport. In this study, the capability of the combined support vector machine-wavelet transform (SVM-Wavelet) model for the prediction of the densimetric Froude number (Fr) was compared to the single SVM and different existing sediment transport equations at the limit of deposition. The performance evaluation was performed using the R-square (R-2), three relative indexes (MRE, MARE, MSRE) and three absolute indexes (ME, MAE, RMSE). The factors affecting the Fr were initially determined. After categorizing them into different dimensionless groups, six different models were found to predict the Fr. Comparisons between the obtained results showed that both the SVM and SVM-Wavelet can predict the Fr with high accuracy. However, it was found that the SVM-Wavelet (R-2=0.995, MRE=0.002, MARE=0.021, MSRE=0.001, ME=0.007, MAE=0.086 and RMSE=0.114) offers higher performance than the SVM and the existing equations. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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