An automated process for the delineation of drainage basins, using as input only the vector based drainage network, is described which provides an alternative to DEM based methods. The procedure involves an approximation of the line Voronoi diagram for the network using a constrained Delaunay triangulation of the network's Planar Straight Line Graph. The constrained triangulation, which include...

production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using steam assisted gravity drainage (sagd) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. this paper explores the use of artificial neural networks (anns) as an alternative to the traditional sagd simulation approach. feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the back-error-propaga...

according to the low efficiency of irrigation and drainage networks and water distribution in iran, simulating water flow and sensitivity structures and networks is considered as a new approach to evaluate the performance hydroelectric projects in the country. in this study, because of reduced water supply and distribution, especially in downstream irrigation and drainage networks varamin to ev...

introductapplication of neural network of multi layers perceptron (mlp) in site selection of municipal solid ‎waste landfilling with emphasis on hydrogeomorphic characteristics (case study: fereydoonshahr city)‎introduction‏:‏cities are at the nexus of a further threat to the environment, namely the production of an increasing ‎quantity and complexity of wastes. the estimated quantity of munici...

Research relevance. Climatic changes determine the need to ensure a high productivity of drained lands through use appropriate adaptive measures for regulating and accumulating moisture in soil. Therefore, issue changing approaches creation operation water reclamation facilities on gains Relevant are also methodology projects drainage systems construction reconstruction their optimal design sol...

In this paper, the river network is divided into sub-networks forming a hierarchy of drainage systems following the Horton order. Then, drainage systems are rearranged based on their pattern to obtain more homogeneous drainage systems which do not necessarily follow the Horton order. Such reorganization facilitates the description of the network system. Such organization can be useful for terra...

This paper describes a new method for hypsometric tinting for small-scale maps. The method generalises digital elevation models by removing small unnecessary details and accentuating major valleys and ridgelines. The elevation data are filtered with lower and upper quartile filters that are combined using a drainage network. The lower quartile filter is applied in valleys, delimited by the drai...

abstract although lateral drains play the main role in removal of excess water from soil profile in subsurface drainage systems, but it is assumed that perforated collectors can directly remove a part of drainwater from soils. this part of discharge in subsurface drains is not usually taken into consideration in drainage design criteria, due to lack required information and its difficult estima...

In recent years, biodiesel has been considered as a good alternative of diesel fuels. Density and viscosity are two important properties of these fuels. In this study, density and kinematic viscosity of biodiesel-diesel blends were estimated by using artificial neural network (ANN). A three-layer feed forward neural network with Levenberg-Marquard (LM) algorithm was used for learning empirical ...