Reduce the maximum scour depth downstream of Flip Bucket Spillway through the spillway geometry optimization (study released spillway dam Kurdistan)

The Performance of shooting pool, in addition to the quality of the area in which the flow collides with it, depends to the height of the jet drop, the angle of the water flow, the depth of the jet and the concentration of the jet. By increasing the height of the jet drop, the fall velocity increases and subsequently the jetchr('39')s energy will be more intrusive. Different collision area from the scouring phenomenon that considered in the design step, may lead to damages to the structure of the dam. For this purpose, an Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model and Differential Evolution Algorithm were used to optimize the geometry of the flip bucket spillway to reduce the scour depth of the jet. To construct a fuzzy inference system and calculate the scour depth based on available input/output patterns, the ANFIS fuzzy-inductive inference system was used. ANFIS model was used to train input and output data using laboratory data. Finally, using the differential evolution algorithm and also the ANFIS model output, the geometry of the flip bucket spillway has been optimized by defining the objective function for minimizing the depth of the scour hole in the downstream of the spillway.