Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling

Thesis (PhD (Civil Engineering))

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Main Author: Nawaz, Nadeem
Published: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2024
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Online Access:https://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/1491
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spelling oai:openscience.utm.my:123456789/14912024-12-17T18:01:06Z Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling Nawaz, Nadeem Watershed management—Data processing Hydrologic models—Computer programs Urban runoff Thesis (PhD (Civil Engineering)) Urbanization has significant impact on the hydrological processes that have caused an increase in magnitude and frequency of floods; therefore, a reliable rainfall-runoff model will be helpful to estimate discharge for any watershed management plans. Beside physically-based models, the data driven approaches have been also used frequently to model the rainfall-runoff processes. Neuro-fuzzy systems (NFS) as one of the main category of data-driven models are common in hydrological time series modeling. Among the different algorithms, Adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is well-practiced in hydrological modeling. ANFIS is an offline model and needs to be retrained periodically to be updated. Therefore, an NFS model that can employ different learning process to overcome such problem is needed. This study developed dynamic evolving neuro fuzzy inference system (DENFIS) model for event based and continuous rainfallrunoff modeling and the results were compared with the existing models to check model capabilities. DENFIS evolves through incremental learning in which the rulebase is evolved after accommodating each individual new input data and benefitted from local learning implemented through the clustering method, Evolving Clustering Method (ECM). In this study, extreme events were extracted from the historical hourly data of selected tropical catchments of Malaysia. The DENFIS model performances were compared with ANFIS, the hydrologic modeling system (HECHMS) and autoregressive model with exogenous inputs (ARX) for event based rainfall-runoff modeling. DENFIS model was also evaluated against ANFIS for continuous rainfall-runoff modeling on a daily and hourly basis, multi-step ahead runoff forecasting and simulation of the river stage. The average coefficients of efficiency (CE) obtained from DENFIS model for the events in testing phase were 0.81, 0.79 and 0.65 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable with ANFIS and HEC-HMS and were better than ARX. The CEs obtained from DENFIS model for hourly continuous were 0.93, 0.92 and 0.62 and for daily continuous were 0.73, 0.67 and 0.54 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable to the ones obtained from ANFIS. The performances of DENFIS and ANFIS were also comparable for multistep ahead prediction and river stage simulation. This study concluded that less training time and flexibility of the rule-base in DENFIS is an advantage compared to an offline model such as ANFIS despite the fact that the results of the two models are generally comparable. However, the learning algorithm in DENFIS was found to be potentially useful to develop adaptable runoff forecasting tools. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2024-12-17T09:31:34Z 2024-12-17T09:31:34Z 2017 https://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/1491 application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
spellingShingle Watershed management—Data processing
Hydrologic models—Computer programs
Urban runoff
Nawaz, Nadeem
Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title_full Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title_fullStr Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title_full_unstemmed Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title_short Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling
title_sort dynamic neuro fuzzy systems for rainfall runoff modelling
topic Watershed management—Data processing
Hydrologic models—Computer programs
Urban runoff
url https://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/1491
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