NEW MODELS FOR UNSATURATED SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES
作者:
R. ZHANG,
M. VAN GENUCHTEN,
期刊:
Soil Science
(OVID Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 158,
issue 2
页码: 77-85
ISSN:0038-075X
年代: 1994
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Two relatively simple models are proposed for describing the soil water retention curve. The expressions define sigmoidal or bimodal type retention functions with four or five parameters, respectively. The sigmoidal retention model may be combined with predictive pore-size distribution theories to yield closed-form equations for the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. Parameters in the proposed hydraulic functions were estimated from observed retention data using a nonlinear least-squares optimization process. The models were tested on hydraulic data for more than 20 soils. Good agreement between predicted values and measured retention and conductivity data was found for most of the soils. The soil hydraulic models can be effectively utilized as inputs for numerical models of water flow and solute transport
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