About the Authors

Hamidreza Ghazvinian

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Sayed-Farhad Mousavi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Hojat Karami

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Saeed Farzin

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Mohammad Ehteram

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Md Shabbir Hossain

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Department of Civil Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Chow Ming Fai

Roles Validation

Affiliation Intitute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia

Huzaifa Bin Hashim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Vijay P. Singh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Faizah Che Ros

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Green Technology, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ali Najah Ahmed

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Intitute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia

Haitham Abdulmohsin Afan

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

haitham.afan@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sai Hin Lai

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ahmed El-Shafie

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.