waterDE, Calculation of water retention curves by Differential Evolution

This web site hosts the source code and a few binary packages of waterDE, a command line application that calculates the characteristics parameters of water retention models using Differential Evolution (DE). The waterDE application currently implements the Brooks-Corey, van Genuchten and Rossi-Nimmo analytic models. In the next release, a plugin architecture will allow to easily add a wider range of analytic models to the package. The official reference for waterDE is: S. Maggi, Estimating water retention characteristic parameters using differential evolution, Computers and Geotechnics, Volume 86, June 2017, Pages 163-172, doi 10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.12.025. Please cite this paper whenever you use waterDE for a scientific publication or a presentation.