ANN 1 Correlation coefficient 1 Grain velocity Linear regression 1 Mean square error 1 Neural networks 1 Rectangular channel 1 Root mean square errors 1 SVM 1 Sediment transportation 1 Shear flow 1 Shear velocities 1 Shear-velocity 1 Soft computing 1 Softcomputing techniques 1 Support vector machines 1 Support vectors machine 1 Testing phase 1 Velocity 1 grain velocity 1 sediment transportation 1 shear velocity 1