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Establishment of the scour formula<br />

7.3.5 Genetic algorithm<br />

With the evolution of informatics, new techniques for data treatment were developed. One of<br />

these techniques are genetic algorithms allowing to search for functions fitting to a given data set.<br />

It is important to use genetic algorithms not like a magic black box, but knowing the important<br />

parameters for the process to obtain a result which has a physically correct form. To analyze the<br />

data in this research study, a genetic program called GPKernel (Genetic Programming Kernel)<br />

developed by Maarten Keijzer and Vladan Babovic at the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) was<br />

used.<br />

The program looks for mathematical relations based on a set of input parameters, constants,<br />

operations, genetic parameters and on user-defined target(s) 1 . The genetic parameters like for<br />

example the size of the population, the number of generations to produce or time of run, different<br />

probabilities of mutations and genetic operations can be modified. A big advantage of the program<br />

is the possibility to perform a dimensionally aware genetic programming (KEIJZER & BABO-<br />

VIC, 1999). Additional information on GPKernel can be found in the Users Manual (RODRIGUEZ<br />

AGUILERA, 2000).<br />

The following tables (Appendix <strong>12</strong>.1 and <strong>12</strong>.2) give a small subset (< 0.1%) of obtained results. It<br />

can be seen that most of the previously identified main parameters appear in the equations. The<br />

following characteristics are found in the maximum scour equation: Re, Fr, Fr∗ , V∗ ⁄ V , S e<br />

and h m ⁄ B . In the relation giving the first and second scour locations, some other characteristics<br />

are dominant: σ (Peter found this parameter, too), Fr d , R c ⁄ B , h m ⁄ B and d 90<br />

⁄ h m .<br />

The plots in Tables 7.4 and 7.5 compare the computed and the measured relative maximum scour,<br />

and the two scour locations. All available data are included in the plots (with the tests of PETER,<br />

1986).<br />

a) Tests without macro-roughness<br />

For the equations obtained with the genetic algorithm it is sometimes difficult to get a plausible<br />

physical explanation of the phenomena. If we analyze the first equation for the maximum scour<br />

depth (Appendix <strong>12</strong>.1, ID 1), we obtain after regroupment of the terms and omission of terms<br />

without significant influence:<br />

h smax ,<br />

R<br />

-------------- 2.4 σ 1.2 Fr Fr (7.51)<br />

h d<br />

----- c ⎛ 1 1<br />

----- + ----- ⎞ d<br />

⋅ + ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅<br />

90 2 ⋅ h<br />

=<br />

⋅ ⎛------ + Fr∗ – ------------- m<br />

+ θ⎞<br />

+ 1.85<br />

m<br />

B ⎝σ 3 σ 4 ⎠ ⎝h m B ⎠<br />

This equation has a correlation of R 2 = 0.832 which is quite high, but less that what was<br />

obtained previously (equation 7.20). Looking for a physical explanation of this equation, some<br />

parameters show the right tendency: the relative scour increases with increasing Froude numbers,<br />

Shields parameter and increasing mean flow depth to width ratio. But a smaller radius of curvature<br />

should lead to an increase of the scour depth and the equation gives an opposite tendency. Therefore<br />

this formula will not be considered for the final evaluation.<br />

1. The program also allows multi target searches.<br />

<strong>EPFL</strong> Ph.D thesis 2632 - Daniel S. Hersberger November 9, 2002 / page 175

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