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A Particle Swarm Optimization Assessment for the Determination of Non-Darcian Flow Parameters in a Confined Aquifer

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Being one of the preliminary in-situ testing methods, aquifer pumping tests would provide significant insights which form a basis for the aquifer characterization. The use of Darcian based flow models to describe the groundwater flow would be ineffective for the aquifer pumping tests under certain circumstances. Non-Darcian flow models could therefore construct more accurate portrayal of physical reality for the assessment of aquifer testing. The interpretation of flow parameters obtained from non-Darcian flows via classical curve matching methods seems extremely difficult to acquire a unique match since the well-defined type curves have not been developed. In this study, an evolutionary optimization based algorithm, called as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), was established to determine the flow parameters namely power index, storativity and the turbulent factor which serves as an apparent hydraulic conductivity. The proposed PSO based parameter estimation scheme was implemented for a number of numerical test cases and the estimation performance was evaluated by comparing with available population based algorithms. The results reveal that the PSO based estimation approach is successfully able to identify the flow parameters in an accurate and fast manner. A number of sensitivity analyses were also conducted to draw the limitations of the introduced PSO based technique. The positive findings from this study pointed the potential capability of using PSO as a viable algorithm to process the complex relations in the flow.

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Şahin, A. A Particle Swarm Optimization Assessment for the Determination of Non-Darcian Flow Parameters in a Confined Aquifer. Water Resour Manage 32, 751–767 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-017-1837-9

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