Abstract: Scour is a natural phenomenon in alluvial streams around hydraulic structures due to the removal of bed material and often leads to their failure. Scour due to jets are the most prevalent form of scour seen downstream of ...

Abstract: This study utilized hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) models, created by integrating the extreme gradient boosting model with particle swarm optimization (XGBoost-PSO) and differential evolution (XGBoost-DE) algorithms. ...

Abstract: An accurate prediction of scour depth around bridge piers is crucial for economical and safe design of bridge pier foundations. The main objective of the present study is to identify the influencing cohesive parameters and ...

Abstract: The natural environment consists of flora and fauna, providing valuable services for human livelihood, termed ecosystem services (ES). These ES consist of four significant biomes, of which water is one of the subbiomes. ...

Abstract: The scouring process near spur dikes could jeopardize the stability of riverbanks. Thus, accurate estimation of the maximum scour depth near spur dikes is crucial in river engineering. However, due to the complexity of the ...