Physically Based Coupled Model for Simulating 1D Surface–2D Subsurface Flow and Plant Water Uptake in Irrigation Furrows. I: Model Development
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Physically based modeling of the interacting water flow during a furrow irrigation season can contribute to both a sustainable irrigation management and an improvement of the furrow irrigation efficiency. This paper presents a process based seasonal furrow irrigation model which describes the interacting one-dimensional surface–two-dimensional subsurface flow and crop growth during a whole growing period. The irrigation advance model presented in a previous study is extended to all hydraulic phases of an irrigation event. It is based on an analytical solution of the zero-inertia surface flow equations and is iteratively coupled with the two-dimensional subsurface flow model HYDRUS-2. A conceptual crop growth model calculates daily evaporation, transpiration and leaf area index. The crop model and HYDRUS-2 are coupled via its common boundaries, namely (1) by the flux across the soil-atmosphere interface; and (2) by the flux from the root zone, which is associated with the plant water uptake. We assume the water stress is the only environmental factor reducing crop development and hence final crop yield. The model performance is evaluated with field experimental data in the companion paper, Part II: Model Test and Evaluation (Wöhling and Mailhol 2007).
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG), who kindly sponsored this project over a period of at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
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