Modeling of pollutant transmission in rivers By using Finite volume method and ANFIS model

Study in surface water quality is important. Rivers are one of the main sources of water supply fordrinking, agriculture and industry. Unfortunately, sometime Rivers where wastewater dischargesare considered. For this reason,the pollutant transmission in river is one of the most importantproblems in Environmental Engineering. the Advection Dispersion Equation (ADE) is governedon the pollutant transport in river. this equation is partial differential equation (PDE). Thisequation is used most widely in fluid engineering spatially water engineering and in generalnamed convection equation.to Preparate computer programs that can simulate the pollutanttransmission, in addition to the used numerical method to solution of the convection equation ,thecalculation of Longitudinal Dispersion coefficient (LDC) is needed. Many empirical formulas arepresented for calculating the LDC. the assessment of this equations shows that Most of theiraccuracy is not satisfactory. Thus the use of Artificial Intelligent techniques is inevitable. In thispaper, the finite volume method is used discretiz of ADE and to estimate the diffusion coefficient,adaptive neural network (ANFIS) has been developed. the result of ANFIS model shows that Theaccuracy and performance of the model in training and testing process is very suitable. After thedevelopment of an artificial intelligence model general model was developed. the result of thefinal model tested with analytical solution of ADE and observation data of the Severn River in theUK. the final result show that performance of model is suitable.Keywords: transmission of pollutant, finite volume method, Severn river