Review article

https://doi.org/10.14256/JCE.733.2012

Numerical model of water infiltration into unsaturated medium

Vanja Travaš ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Građevinski fakultet
Ivana Lanča ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Građevinski fakultet

Abstract

The one-dimensional model of vertical infiltration of water into an unsaturated soil layer is presented in the paper. The stationary boundary condition of constant soil surface watering is used for analysing the dynamics of transition from the unsaturated to saturated state of soil pores. The discretisation of the space and time domain of flow is conducted using the finite difference method. The resulting numerical algorithm is included in the program package MathCAD 14 to enable numerical analysis of filtration flow rate.

Keywords

Darcy’s law; unsaturated porous medium; surface infiltration; redistribution curve; Richards equation, van Genuchten model

Hrčak ID:

90909

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/90909

Publication date:

8.11.2012.

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