Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for Partially Saturated Porous Media
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 125, Issue 2
Abstract
In this paper a method of obtaining the effective hydraulic conductivity for partially saturated porous media is proposed. The governing moisture transport equation was modified by introducing a velocity term to make it analogous with the longitudinal dispersion equation. This equation was solved using a transformed coordinate system where the origin is moving at the mean velocity. The effective hydraulic conductivity was derived by an approach similar to the derivation of the longitudinal dispersion coefficient subject to certain limitations. The validation of the proposed approach was tested using a randomly generated set of local soil water data.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 125 • Issue 2 • March 1999
Pages: 82 - 89
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Received: Dec 15, 1997
Published online: Mar 1, 1999
Published in print: Mar 1999
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