Research Article

Sensitivity Analysis and Identification of Parameters to the Van Genuchten Equation

Table 3

Objective function values obtained by different algorithms only for the desorption data.

AlgorithmObjective functionAlgorithmObjective function

Simplex method [10]Differential evolution algorithm [22]
Damped least square method [13] [24]
Random particle swarm [18]DNLPSO [24]
FIPS [24]PSO [19]
CLPSO [24]Basic DSA
IAGSOA [27]Two improved DSA