Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for a Soil of Variable Pore Size with Depth

Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for a Soil of Variable Pore Size with Depth

Effective Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Steady-state and transient one-dimensional unsaturated flow in vertically stratified porous media are examined. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and the alpha parameter of the exponential hydraulic conductivity function were assumed to vary from soil layer to soil layer. The use of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity to compute matric potential in the soil profile is demonstrated. Resu...

Study of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Variations in Different Aggregate Size Distributions in an Agricultural Soil

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) is one of the most important soil physical characteristics that plays a major role in the soil hydrological behaviour. It is mainly affected by the soil structure characteristics. Aggregate size distribution is a measure of soil structure formation that can affect Ks. In this study, variations of Ks were investigated in various aggregate size distributions ...

scaling of soil hydraulic conductivity function using effective capillary drive

abstract to estimate spatial variability of soil hydraulic functions, scaling methods were developed and have been widely used. among these functions, physically based methods have been found more desirable because of possibility of estimating soil hydraulic functions from soil physical properties. in this paper, a new and physically based method has been described for scaling soil hydraulic co...

ring size dependence of field saturated hydraulic conductivity measurements in a clay loam soil

field saturated hydraulic conductivity (kfs) is one of the most important soil properties that considerably contribute to soil quality. however, specifically in the structured soils, the measurement of kfs is difficult and time-consuming. therefore, verifying the simple and fast methods for kfs measurement is needed for effective soil monitoring. this study was conducted to investigate the effe...