This document describes a study that used an artificial neural network with backpropagation (ANN-BP) to predict Manning's roughness coefficient.
- The ANN-BP model was trained on 352 data points from laboratory experiments measuring flow parameters. It used a 7-10-1 network architecture with 10 neurons in the input layer, 10 neurons in the hidden layer, and 1 neuron in the output layer.
- The model achieved a correlation coefficient of 0.980 when comparing predicted and simulated roughness coefficients. The mean squared error was 0.00000177 and the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency value was 0.597, indicating good model performance.