Estimating the van Genuchten retention curve parameters of undisturbed soil from a single upward infiltration measurement

Estimating Parameters of Van Genuchten Model for Soil Water Retention Curve by Intelligent Algorithms

An improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) was proposed and the intelligent algorithms such as IPSO, genetic algorithm (GA), and simulated annealing algorithm (SA) were introduced to determine parameters of Van Genuchten (VG) model for soil water retention curve (SWRC) of four typical agricultural soil textures (clay, clay loam, silt loam and sand loam) in China. For comparison, the SWRC in...

Estimating van genuchten soil water retenion curve from some soil physical properties

ارزیابی هدایت هیدرولیکی نقطه عطف منحنی مشخصه رطوبتی به عنوان مرجع در برخی مدل‌های هدایت هیدرولیکی غیراشباع خاک

Direct measurement of soil unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (K(h) or K(θ)) is difficult and time-consuming, and often in many applied models, predicting hydraulic conductivity is carried out according to measurements of soil retention curve and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks). However, using KS as a matching point in many procedures may result in over-estimation of unsaturated hydraulic...

Prediction of Dispersivity for Undisturbed Soil Columns from Water Retention Parameters

ity D/v (L), that can be related solely to characteristics of the porous medium (Fried and Combarnous, Dispersivity ( ) is a required input parameter in solute-transport 1971). Dispersivity is a required input parameter in conmodels based on the advection-dispersion equation (ADE). Normally is obtained from miscible-displacement experiments. This depentaminant transport models based on the ADE ...

Estimating the water retention curve from soil properties: comparison of linear, nonlinear and concomitant variable methods

The unsaturated soil hydraulic functions involving the soil–water retention curve (SWRC) and the hydraulic conductivity provide useful integrated indices of soil quality. Existing and newly devised methods were used to formulate pedotransfer functions (PTFs) that predict the SWRC from readily available soil data. The PTFs were calibrated using a large soils database from Hungary. The database c...