1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Lakehead Univ., Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7B 5E1.
2. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Lakehead Univ., Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7B 5E1 (corresponding author). ORCID: .
3. Professor, Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, Collage of Agriculture, Isfahan Univ. of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran.