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Neurocomputing in surface water hydrology and hydraulics: a review of two decades retrospective, current status and future prospects

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posted on 2020-07-10, 13:12 authored by Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani, Elena Matta, Andrea Cominola, Xilin Xia, Qing Zhang, Qiuhua LiangQiuhua Liang, Reinhard Hinkelmann
Neurocomputing methods have contributed significantly to the advancement of modelling techniques in surface water hydrology and hydraulics in the last couple of decades, primarily due to their vast performance advantages and usage amenity. This comprehensive review considers the research progress in the past two decades, the current state-of-the-art, and future prospects of the application of neurocomputing to different aspects of hydrological sciences, i.e., quantitative surface hydrology and hydraulics. An extensive literature survey, by running over more than 800 peer-reviewed papers, outlines and concisely explores the past and recent tendencies in the application of conventional neural-based approaches and modern neurocomputing models in relevant topics of hydrological and hydraulic sciences. Apart from segregated descriptions and analyses of the main facets of surface hydrology and hydraulics, this review offers a practical summary of prevailing neurocomputing methods used in different subfields of hydrology and water engineering. Six relevant topics to modelling hydrological and hydraulic sciences are articulated and analysed, including modelling of water level in surface water bodies, flood and risk assessment, sediment transport in river systems, urban water demand prediction, modelling flow through hydro-structures, and hydraulics of sewers. This review is meant to be a mainstream guideline for researchers and practitioners whose work is associated with data mining and machine learning methods in various areas of water engineering and hydrological sciences to assist them to decide on suitable methods, network structures and modelling strategies for a given problem.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Journal of Hydrology

Volume

588

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Elsevier B.V.

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Hydrology and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125085.

Acceptance date

2020-05-15

Publication date

2020-05-20

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

0022-1694

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Qiuhua Liang. Deposit date: 9 July 2020

Article number

125085

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