One of the most important issues in designing coastal and offshore structures is the prediction of wave and current forces on slender cylinders. Such forces are often considered as dominate loadings. Many analytical and empirical methods such as Morison equation have been suggested for estimation of waves and current forces. Such methods, however, have shown inaccuracies in predicting hydrodyna...

there are many approaches for solving variety combinatorial optimization problems (np-compelete) that devided to exact solutions and approximate solutions. exact methods can only be used for very small size instances due to their expontional search space. for real-world problems, we have to employ approximate methods such as evolutionary algorithms (eas) that find a near-optimal solution in a r...

rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

The aging of insulating materials can be estimated by an electrical breakdown occurring in electrical components so that the relationship between lifetime, failure probability and reliability of electrical components may be studied using the life models in high voltage cables networks. In last decades with attention to higher features as electrical, thermal, mechanical characteristic, widely cr...

Wind waves are one of the important, fundamental and interesting subjects in port and coastal engineering. Thus, within years, different methods such as experimental methods, numerical modeling and soft computing methods have been employed to estimate the wave parameters. In this study, waves height in Anzali port is predicted using soft computing models such as multivariate adaptive regressi...