Surrogate-based pumping optimization of coastal aquifers under limited computational budgets

Christelis, Vasileios; Regis, Rommel G.; Mantoglou, Aristotelis. 2018 Surrogate-based pumping optimization of coastal aquifers under limited computational budgets. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 20 (1). 164-176. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.063

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Abstract/Summary

The computationally expensive variable density and salt transport numerical models hinder the implementation of simulation-optimization routines for coastal aquifer management. To reduce the computational cost, surrogate models have been utilized in pumping optimization of coastal aquifers. However, it has not been previously addressed whether surrogate modelling is effective given a limited number of numerical simulations with the seawater intrusion model. To that end, two surrogate-based optimization (SBO) frameworks are employed and compared against the direct optimization approach, under restricted computational budgets. The first, a surrogate-assisted algorithm, employs a strategy which aims at a fast local improvement of the surrogate model around optimal values. The other, balances global and local improvement of the surrogate model and is applied for the first time in coastal aquifer management. The performance of the algorithms is investigated for optimization problems of moderate and large dimensionalities. The statistical analysis indicates that for the specified computational budgets, the sample means of the SBO methods are statistically significantly better than those of the direct optimization. Additionally, the selection of cubic radial basis functions as surrogate models, enables the construction of very fast approximations for problems with up to 40 decision variables and 40 constraint functions.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.063
NORA Subject Terms:	Hydrology
Date made live:	13 Mar 2018 09:22 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519483

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.063

NORA Subject Terms:

Hydrology

Date made live:

13 Mar 2018 09:22 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519483