Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Estimating SWRC parameters and unsaturated hydraulic permeability by improved Jaya and hybrid improved jaya optimization algorithms

  • Research
  • Published:
Earth Science Informatics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In this paper, Improved Jaya (I-Jaya) and Hybrid I-Jaya-Nonlinear Programming (Hybrid) algorithms were introduced and used for solving the optimum problems of Soil Water Retention Curve (SWRC) parameters. Based on the measured data (12 soil samples with diver textures from different areas of world), optimization solvers including Nonlinear Programming (NP), Genetic algorithm (GA), and Jaya alongside were examined for the proposed algorithms. Five parameters were considered for estimating the van Genuchten model. Additionally, SWRC parameters and Mualem model were used for calculating Unsaturated Permeability Coefficients (UPC) and comparing them with the measured data in the logarithmic scale. The average values of the statistical index were R, R2, MAE, RMSE, and the computational cost as the run time were calculated for the soil samples for both step. The results demonstrated the outperformance of I-Jaya for solving the SWRC optimization problems and estimating UPCs with less computation cost. In addition, I-Jaya could immediately provide suitable initial guesses for the NP algorithm and their combination as a hybrid method could deliver the best accuracy in comparison to other methods.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7

Similar content being viewed by others

Data availability

The data used in this research are taken from UNSODA which is publicly available and the data results in this research are presented in the article.

Abbreviations

BC:

Brooks–Corey model

GA:

Genetic Algorithm

Hybrid:

I-Jaya-Nonlinear

I-Jaya:

Improved Jaya

MAE:

Mean Absolute Error

NP:

Nonlinear Programming

PDI:

Peters–Durner–Iden

R:

Correlation Coefficient

R2 :

Coefficient of Determination

RMSD:

Root Mean Square Difference

RMSE:

Root Mean Square Error

SWRC:

Soil Water Retention Curve

ULS:

Un-weighted Least Squares Regression

UNSODA:

Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Database

UPC:

Unsaturated Permeability Coefficients

VG:

Van Genuchten’s model with five parameters

WLS:

Weighted Least Squares Regression

σ:

Standard Deviation

References

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Contributions

All the authors contributed to the study’s conception and design. Reza Askary carried out data curation, methodology, software development, wrote the original draft, and carried out formal analysis. Mohsen Najarchi and Hossein Mazaheri contributed to the original draft’s conceptualization, validation, supervision, rewriting, and editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript draft.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mohsen Najarchi.

Ethics declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

Additional information

Communicated by: H. Babaie

Publisher’s note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Askary, R., Najarchi, M. & Mazaheri, H. Estimating SWRC parameters and unsaturated hydraulic permeability by improved Jaya and hybrid improved jaya optimization algorithms. Earth Sci Inform 15, 2155–2169 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-022-00862-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-022-00862-z

Keywords

Navigation