The transport process of chemical-fertilizers, radioactive materials and other solutes in soils and porous media is important to understand the environmental and economic effects of industrial, agricultural and urban waste disposal methods. In unsaturated porous media, large gradient in aqueous osmotic potential derives significant water vapor fluxes towards regions of high solute concentration...

This study was performed under greenhouse condition and completely randomized design for wheat and canola at near saturated soil moisture condition to field capacity (seven soil matric suction treatments including 20, 40, 60, 80, 110, 300 and 500 cm with three ) in two consecutive years. The results showed that as the soil moisture content decreases from saturation condition, root respiration r...

In semi-arid regions, soils are weakly aggregated and subjected to water erosion processes especially rill and interrill erosion. There is no information on the rate of these water erosion types in semi-arid soils located in the hillslopes. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the soils susceptibility to these erosion types in semi-arid region. A laboratory experiment was done in ei...

This study was carried out to investigate the role of soil structure in splash erosion in semi-arid soils. Splash erosion was measured in four soil textures (silty clay loam, sandy clay loam, silt loam and sandy loam) with two soil structure conditions (with natural structure and under aggregate breakdown) using a simulated rainfall with 50 mmh-1 in intensity for 30 min in splash caps with 10-c...

This study was conducted to investigate the temporal variations of runoff and rill erosion in various soil textures under different slope gradients. So, a laboratory experiment was set up in three soil textures (loam, clay loam, and sandy clay loam) and four slope gradients (5, 10, 15, and 20%) using the completely randomized design with three replications. Runoff production and rill erosion we...