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Arching effect and displacement on theoretical estimation for lateral force acting on retaining wall
Artificial Neural Networks Based Approach for Identification of Unknown Pollution Sources in Aquifers
This work focuses on groundwater resources contaminations identification.
The problem of identifying an unknown pollution source in polluted
aquifers, based on known contaminant concentrations measurement in the
studied areas, is part of the broader group of issues, called inverse problems. In
this field, often pollution may result from contaminations whose origins are
generated in different times and places where these contaminations have been
actually found. To address such scenarios, it is necessary to develop specific
techniques that allow to identify time and space features of unknown contaminant
sources. The characterization of the contaminant source is of utmost
importance for the planning of subsurface remediation in the polluted site. In
this work, such identification is solved as an inverse problem in two stages.
Firstly a Multi Layer Perceptron neural network is trained on a set of numerical
simulations, and then the case under study is reconstructed by inverting the
neural model