Solute Transport through Unsaturated Soil due to Evaporation
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 126, Issue 9
Abstract
A new method for predicting upward solute movement in unsaturated sand soil due to evaporation is developed and tested. Laboratory experiments were conducted in an unsaturated uniformly packed sand column with a cross section of 1.20 × 0.50 m2 and a constant shallow ground-water table. Evaporation was measured by a new ventilated chamber system. Solute movement from the ground water upward was monitored. Water and solute movement could be accurately reproduced by numerically solving Richards' equation and the convection-dispersion equation in one-dimension. The experimentally measured dispersivity for the unsaturated homogeneous sand agreed closely with the values which are available in the literature. This paper offers a new approach for investigating dispersion phenomena in unsaturated porous media exposed to evaporation.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 126 • Issue 9 • September 2000
Pages: 842 - 848
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Received: May 11, 1999
Published online: Sep 1, 2000
Published in print: Sep 2000
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