Abstract
Soil-water distribution in homogeneous soil profiles of Yolo clay loam and Yolo sand (Typic xerorthents) irrigated from a circular source of water, was measured several times after the initiation of irrigation. The effect of trickle discharge rates and soil type on the locations of the wetting front and soil-water distribution was considered. Soil-water tension and hydraulic conductivity, as functions of soil-water content, were also measured. The theories of time-dependent, linearized infiltration from a circular source and a finite-element solution of the two-dimensional transient soil-water equation were compared with the experimental results. In general, for both soils the computer horizontal and vertical advances of the wetting front were closely related to those observed. With both theories, a better prediction of the wetting front position for the clay loam soil than for the sandy soil is shown. The calculated and measured horizontal vertical advances did not agree over long periods of time. With the linearized solution, overestimated and underestimated vertical advances for the clay and sandy soils, respectively, were shown. The finite-element model approximate in a better way the vertical advances than the linearized solution, while an opposite tendency for the horizontal advances indicated, especially in sandy soil.
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Abbreviations
- k :
-
constant (dK/dθ)
- K :
-
hydraulic conductivity
- K 0 :
-
saturated hydraulic conductivity
- J 0,J 1 :
-
Bessel functions of the first kind
- h :
-
soil water tension
- q :
-
Q/πr 20
- Q :
-
discharge rate
- r :
-
cylindrical coordinate; also horizontal distance in soil surface
- R :
-
dimensionless quantity forr
- r 0 :
-
constant pond radius
- R 0 :
-
dimensionless quantity forr 0
- t :
-
time
- T :
-
dimensionless quantity fort
- x, y :
-
Cartesian coordinates
- z :
-
vertical coordinate; also vertical distance along thez axis chosen positively downward
- Z :
-
dimensionless quantity forz
- α :
-
empirical soil characteristic constant
- λ :
-
dummy variable of integration
- θ :
-
volumetric soil water content
- ϕ :
-
matrix flux potential
- φ :
-
dimensionless quantity for ϕ
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Angelakis, A.N., Kadir, T.N. & Rolston, D.E. Time-dependent soil-water distribution under a circular trickle source. Water Resour Manage 7, 225–235 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01675305
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