Simultaneous estimation of groundwater recharge rates, associated zone structures, and hydraulic conductivity values using fuzzy c-means clustering and harmony search optimisation algorithm: A case study of the Tahtalı watershed

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  • M. TAMER AYVAZ
  • ALPER ELÇI
چکیده

The aim of this study is to present a linked simulation-optimisation model to estimate the groundwater recharge rates, their associated zone structures, and hydraulic conductivity values for regional, steady-state groundwater flow models. For the zone structure estimation problem the fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) method was used. According to our current knowledge, this is the first time that this method was implemented for groundwater recharge zonation problems. The association of zone structures with the spatial distribution of groundwater recharge rates was then accomplished using an optimisation approach where the heuristic harmony search (HS) algorithm was used due to its efficiency in finding global or near global optimum solutions. Since the solution was obtained by a heuristic algorithm, the optimisation process did not require an initial solution, which is an advantage of the proposed approach. The HS based optimisation model determines the shape of zone structures, their corresponding recharge rates and hydraulic conductivity values by minimizing the root mean square error (R) between simulated and observed head values at observation wells and springs, respectively. To determine the best recharge zone structure, the identification procedure starts with computation of one zone and systematically increased the zone number until the optimum zone structure is identified. Subsequently, the performance of the proposed simulationoptimisation model was evaluated on the Tahtalı watershed, an urban watershed for which a seasonal steadystate groundwater flow model was developed for a previous study. The results of our study demonstrated that the proposed simulation-optimisation model is an effective way to calibrate the groundwater flow models for the cases where tangible information about the groundwater recharge distribution does not exist.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011