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Present	Emeritus Professor, Utah State University ‐ Utah Water Research Laboratory
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Present	Emeritus Professor, Utah State University ‐ Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Articles (112)

ANN-Based Predictors of ASR Well Recovery Effectiveness in Unconfined Aquifers

Hydrology (2023)

Saeid Masoudiashtiani and Richard C. Peralta

In this study, we present artificial neural networks (ANNs) to aid in a reconnaissance evaluation of an aquifer storage and ...

Simulation-Optimization for Conjunctive Water Resources Management and Optimal Crop Planning ...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020)

Madan K. Jha, Richard C. Peralta and Sasmita Sahoo

Water resources sustainability is a worldwide concern because of climate variability, growing population, and excessive groundwater exploitation in order to ...

Comparing Single-Objective Optimization Protocols for Calibrating the Birds Nest Aquifer ...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020)

Richard T. Lyons, Richard C. Peralta and Partha Majumder

To best represent reality, simulation models of environmental and health-related systems might be very nonlinear. Model calibration ideally identifies globally ...

Groundwater Optimization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management

Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2012)

Richard C. Peralta and Ineke M. Kalwij

Existing and impending water shortages argue for improving water quantity and quality management. Groundwater Optimization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Transport, and ...

Optimizing national water allocation and distribution for sustainable water and ...

Journal of Water Science and Technology: Water Supply (2012)

Richard C. Peralta

Optimizing reservoir-stream-aquifer interactions for conjunctive use and hydropower production

Advances in Civil Engineering (2012)

Hala Fayad, Richard C. Peralta and Ali Forghani

Conjunctive management of water resources involves coordinating use of surface water and groundwater resources. Very few simulation/optimization (S-O) models for ...

Strategic optimization for national water plan implementation

International Water Resources Association Journal (2011)

Richard C. Peralta, A. Lueck and R. Hagan

Optimizing Safe Yield Policy Implementation

Water Resources Management (2010)

Richard C. Peralta, B. Timani and R. Das

The presented method enhances groundwater-mandated safe yield management. It is useful for settings that prevent sustained yield or integrated management. ...

Optimizing integrated water allocation to prioritized water users

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2009)

Richard C. Peralta

Reconciling disparate conceptual and simulation models for multi-model safe-yield optimization

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2009)

B. Timani and Richard C. Peralta

Intelligent space tube optimization for speeding groundwater remedial design

Groundwater (2008)

I. Kalwij and Richard C. Peralta

Abstract An innovative Intelligent Space Tube Optimization (ISTO) two‐stage approach facilitates solving complex nonlinear flow and contaminant transport management problems. ...

Non-adaptive and adaptive hybrid approaches for enhancing water quality management

Journal of Hydrology (2008)

I. Kalwij and Richard C. Peralta

Using optimization to help solve groundwater management problems cost-effectively is becoming increasingly important. Hybrid optimization approaches, that combine two or ...

Optimal In-Situ Bioremediation System Design Using Simulated Annealing

Transactions of the ASABE (2008)

H. J. Shieh and Richard C. Peralta

The presented procedure combines continuous simulated annealing (CSA) heuristic optimization with BIOPLUME II simulation for optimizing in-situ bioremediation system design. ...

Practical remedial design optimization for large complex plumes

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2008)

Richard C. Peralta, I. Kalwij and S. Wu

Powerful simulation/optimization (S/O) models exist for designing groundwater well systems and pumping strategies. However, it can be challenging to use ...

Closure to discussion on Optimal in-situ bioremediation design by hybrid ...

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2006)

H. J. Shieh and Richard C. Peralta

Professor Baveye states that the BIOPLUME II simulator [employed within our simulation/management (S/O) model] insufficiently represents biological clogging (bioclogging). Bioclogging ...

Simulation/optimization modeling for robust pumping strategy design

Groundwater (2006)

I. Kalwij and Richard C. Peralta

A new simulation/optimization modeling approach is presented for addressing uncertain knowledge of aquifer parameters. The Robustness Enhancing Optimizer (REO) couples ...

Optimal in-situ bioremediation design by hybrid genetic algorithm-simulated annealing

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2005)

H. J. Shieh and Richard C. Peralta

Presented is a simulation/optimization (S/O) model combining optimization with BIOPLUME II for optimizing in situ bioremediation system design. The S/O ...

Optimizing integrated water resources management: data, tools, and examples

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2005)

Richard C. Peralta

Best utilizing water resources requires coordinating their availability and use in time and space. Required can be: spatially and temporally ...

Practical aspects of remediation optimization

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2005)

Richard C. Peralta

Software for optimal integrated water resources management

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2005)

Richard C. Peralta

To best integrate management of available water one should coordinate the use of groundwater and surface water in time and ...

Cache Valley: optimizing sustainable water use and ecosystems while considering ...

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2004)

R. Das, Richard C. Peralta and B. Timani

Effect of optimization problem constraints on pump and treat designs ...

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2004)

I. M. Kalwij and Richard C. Peralta

Mathematically optimizing water management

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2004)

Richard C. Peralta and I. M. Kalwij

Multi-objective conjunctive use optimization

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2004)

H. C. Fayad and Richard C. Peralta

This paper presents a simulation/optimization model based on artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms for solving multi-objective conjunctive water use ...

Optimization modeling for groundwater and conjunctive use water policy development

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications (2004)

Richard C. Peralta and R. Shulstad

Planners must sometimes decide how to restrict or reduce groundwater use to prevent unacceptable future problems. Often there are several ...