Monday, March 14, 2016

Flow of water in a soil profile: a gravity dam simulation

We present here a task carried out by our students in the Environmental Modeling subject. They implemented a routine in Matlab/Scilab/Octave high-level interpreted language in order to simulate the flow of water in a soil profile. Their hypothetical study case was a gravity dam. They performed two simulations 1) steady simulation, with the reservoir water level kept constant and 2) unsteady simulation, with the level changing from 10 meters to 50 meters and form 50 meters to 10 meters, whereas the downstream level was kept constant. See the pictures attached and download the pdf report.





Saturday, February 13, 2016

Artificial Neural Network Ensemble (ANNE) algorithm

As our first post here, we would like to share our Artificial Neural Network Ensemble (ANNE) algorithm implemented in Scilab. We have used it as part of our studies on riparian buffer design (see picture bellow). Feel free to download it and let us know your comments, critics and suggestions.

Also download here the paper:
Santin FM, Grzybowski JMV, Silva RV. 2015. Application of neural network ensembles to the problem of estimating raparian buffer width as a function of desired filtering properties. In Ist International Congress of Management, Technology and Inovation. Erechim; 1–4.