Sustainable Water Resources Management

, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp 163–169 | Cite as

Development of a new method for determination of infiltration coefficients in furrow irrigation with natural non-uniformity of slope

  • Hamid Raeisi Vanani
  • Mohammad Shayannejad
  • Ali Reza Soltani Tudeshki
  • Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari
  • Saeid Eslamian
  • Elham Mohri-Esfahani
  • Majedeh Haeri-Hamedani
  • Hossein Jabbari
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Abstract

In this study, a new method was developed to calculate the infiltration coefficients in furrow irrigation with natural non-uniformity of longitudinal slope. For this purpose, 12 usual tilled furrows with 42 m length and 60 cm width were selected. Then, five irrigation events were carried out and the advance-recession and inflow-outflow data were collected. The parameters of the infiltration equation in power-polynomial form (Kostiakov–Lewis) were calculated using the volume-balance (VB) method and based on a power model as advance equation. The non-uniform longitudinal slope in furrows was purposefully made, so that the advance function should not to follow a usual power function, and the power of function to be more than one in some cases. Besides, in some irrigation events, the negative infiltration equation was obtained. Accordingly, from analysis of VB equation components, several modifications were incorporated in procedure of parameter estimation. Some of these modifications include fitting a quadratic function for advance data and calculating the flow cross-sectional area from maximum surface storage value. Volume of infiltrated water was calculated using this method in each irrigation, and compared with the measured volume based on the inflow and outflow hydrographs as a control. The results showed that using the presented method, the average error in computed infiltrated volumes was reduced to about 4%, which validates the application of the new method.

Keywords

Furrow irrigation Infiltration coefficients Non-uniform slope Volume balance Kostiakov–Lewis equation Advance-recession curves 

Notation

FC

Field capacity

PWP

Permanent wilting point

EC

Electrical conductivity

pH

Acidity

fo

Basic infiltration rate

Ao

Wetted area at the upstream;

w

Furrow width

a

Empirical parameter

k

Empirical parameter

p

Empirical parameter of advance equation

r

Empirical parameter of advance equation

Vadv

Advance speed parameter

Qo

Inflow rate

Qout

Outflow rate

Vi

Input volume

Vt

Specific volume

VS,max

Maximum surface storage in time of stabilized outflow rate

Vout,co

Run-off volume after cutoff

Vinf,co

Infiltrated water volume since cutoff until recession completion

s

Distance

t

Time from the start of inflow

ts

Advance time to distance s

x

Water front advance

z

Cumulative infiltration per unit length

σz

Subsurface profile shape factor

σy

Surface profile shape factor; and

σ′y

Surface profile shape factor in cut-off time

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Hamid Raeisi Vanani
    • 1
  • Mohammad Shayannejad
    • 1
  • Ali Reza Soltani Tudeshki
    • 1
  • Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari
    • 2
  • Saeid Eslamian
    • 1
  • Elham Mohri-Esfahani
    • 1
  • Majedeh Haeri-Hamedani
    • 1
  • Hossein Jabbari
    • 3
  1. 1.Water Engineering DepartmentIsfahan University of TechnologyIsfahanIran
  2. 2.Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) BranchIslamic Azad UniversityIsfahanIran
  3. 3.Decorative Plants in Collage of AgricultureShahrekord UniversityShahrekordIran

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