Longshore sediment transport estimation using a fuzzy inference system |
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Authors: | R Bakhtyar A Ghaheri A Yeganeh-Bakhtiary TE Baldock |
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Institution: | aInstitut des sciences et technologies de l’environnement, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;bCivil Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran;cSchool of Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
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Abstract: | Accurate prediction of longshore sediment transport in the nearshore zone is essential for control of shoreline erosion and beach evolution. In this paper, a hybrid Adaptive-Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), Fuzzy Inference System (FIS), CERC, Walton–Bruno (WB) and Van Rijn (VR) formulae are used to predict and model longshore sediment transport in the surf zone. The architecture of ANFIS consisted of three inputs (breaking wave height), (breaking angle), (wave period) and one output (longshore sediment transport rate). For statistical comparison of predicted and measured sediment transport, bias, root mean square error and scatter index are used. The longshore sediment transport rate (LSTR) and wave characteristics at a 4 km-long beach on the central west coast of India are used as case studies. The CERC, WB and VR methods are also applied to the same data. Results indicate that the errors of the ANFIS model in predicting wave parameters are less than those of the empirical formulas. The scatter index of the CERC, WB and VR methods in predicting LSTR is 51.9%, 27.9% and 22.5%, respectively, while the scatter index of the ANFIS model in the prediction of LSTR is 17.32%. A comparison of results reveals that the ANFIS model provides higher accuracy and reliability for LSTR estimation than the other techniques. |
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Keywords: | ANFIS Beach Breaking wave Membership functions Wave characteristics |
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