Aquifer Parameter Identification with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

Author

He, X. ; Liu, J.J.

Author_Institution

Wuhan Polytech. Univ. Wuhan, Wuhan

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Accurate aquifer parameters are important for the underground water controlling engineering. In the paper, the aquifer parameters are identified based on the observed hydraulic heads and drainages. The identification procedure is formulated as an optimization problem and solved with ant colony algorithm. The traditional ant colony algorithm is improved to get global optima as well as to obtain faster convergent speed. The performances of the proposed identification procedure with improved ant colony algorithm is investigated with actual engineering applications and the results show that the parameter identification algorithm proposed in the paper has the characteristics of robustness and global convergence.

Keywords

convergence; groundwater; hydraulic control equipment; identification; optimisation; ant colony optimization; aquifer parameter identification; drainages; hydraulic heads; identification procedure; optimization problem; underground water controlling engineering; Ant colony optimization; Civil engineering; Convergence; Electronic mail; Helium; Inverse problems; Parameter estimation; Robustness; Scheduling algorithm; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2009. ISA 2009. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3893-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3894-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWISA.2009.5072758

Filename

5072758