,the Tehri dam in India is considered here as a case study and the construction cost is reduced using GSAso thatall of the hydraulic constraints will be satisfied. In the following,<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: " times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-font-family:="" "times="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-themecolor:="" text1;"="">the obtained results of GSA are compared with the results of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Vittal and Porey (VP) approach. Comparing the results of VP approach with two used algorithms indicates that when the spillway has four steps, the results of GA and GSA are improved respectively 6% and 7.6% than the results of VP and the results of GSA are improved 1.8% than the results of GA.
moeini R, Jazaeri P. Minimization the cost of stepped spillway using Gravitional Search Algorithm. Iranian Dam and Hydroelectric Powerplant 2018; 5 (18) :25-36 URL: http://journal.hydropower.org.ir/article-1-266-en.html