Soil hydraulic conductivily measurement on a sloping field

Field Measurement of Hydraulic Conductivity of Rocks

On the Identification of Soil Hydraulic Parameters

Drainage experiments are commonly conducted to determine soil hydraulic parameters. Experiments generally measure the temporal evolution of the cumulative outflow as well as pressure heads and water contents at several levels in the column. Then the analysts try to calibrate the model by fitting the model response to the data series. The aim of the present work is to investigate the quality of ...

Measurement Scale Effect on Prediction of Soil Water Retention Curve and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Soil water retention curve (SWRC) and saturated hydraulic conductivity (SHC) are key hydraulic properties for unsaturated zone hydrology and groundwater. In particular, SWRC provides useful information on entry pore-size distribution, and SHC is required for flow and transport modeling in the hydrologic cycle. Not only the SWRC and SHC measurements are time-consuming, but also scale dependent. ...

Inverse Estimation of Soil Hydraulic and Solute Transport Parameters from Transient Field Experiments: Heterogeneous Soil

While inverse parameter estimation techniques for determining key parameters affecting water flow and solute transport are becoming increasingly common in saturated and unsaturated zone studies, their application to practical problems, such as irrigation, have received relatively little attention. In this article, we used the Levenberg–Marquardt optimization algorithm in combination with the HY...

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function based on a soil fragmentation process

We present a new two-parameter expression for relative hydraulic conductivity (RHC) of partially saturated soils. It is based on the premise of Assouline et al. [1998] that soil structures evolve from a uniform random fragmentation process. This assumption allows us to derive hydraulic properties of soils (water retention curves and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity) from primary properties, s...