Course - detail

LEB5038 - Modeling Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soil and Groundwater


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
2
2
8
15 weeks
120 hours

Instructor
Jarbas Honorio de Miranda

Objective
To present a theoretical and practical introduction to computational models applied to soil water and solute dynamics under saturated ((groundwater) and unsaturated conditions.

Content
(1) Physical concepts - fundamental physical greatness applied to the hydrological cycle;
(2) Solving equations (bisection method, secant and Newton-Raphson),
(3) Soil physical properties,
(4) Transport in balance (equation of convection-dispersion / diffusion)
(5) Soil water retention curve (application of RETC model and exercises in EXCEL) (method of least squares adjustment of soil water retention curve),
(6) Applications STANMOD model (CFITIM) (adjustment of breakthrough curves (numerical methods),
(7) Introduction to MIDI model (Miranda, 2001),
(8) Introduction to the HYDRUS 1D model (Infiltration Problems),
(9) Application of MIDI and HYDRUS 1D to problems in water and solute dynamic
(10) Model Application-Hydrus 1D for solving inverse problems.

Bibliography
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Artigos / Periódicos de Interesse:
Bresler, E. (1973). Simultaneous transport of solutes and water under transient unsaturated flow conditions. Water Resour. Res. 9, 975–986.
Jury, W. A. (1982a). Simulation of solute transport with a transfer function model. Water Resour. Res. 18, 363–368.
Jury, W. A. (1982b). Use of solute transport models to estimate salt balance below irrigated cropland. In: Hillel, D., ed. “Advances in Irrigation,” Vol. I. Academic Press, New York.
Jury, W. A., and Sposito, G. (1985). Field calibration and validation of solute transport models for the unsaturated zone. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 49, 1331–1341.
van Genuchten, M. Th., and Shouse, P. J. (1989). Solute transport in heterogeneous field soils. In: Allen, D. T., Cohen, Y., and Kaplan, I. R., eds., “Intermedia Pollutant Transport: Modeling and Field Measurement.” Plenum Publishing Corp., New York.
van Genuchten, M. Th., and Wierenga, P. J. (1974). Simulation of one-dimensional solute transfer in porous media. Agric. Exp. Stn. Bulletin 628, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM.
van Genuchten, M. Th., and Wierenga, P. J. (1976). Mass transfer studies in sorbing porous media: I. Analytical solutions. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 40: 473–479.
van Genuchten, M. Th., and Alves, W. J. (1982). Analytical solutions of the onedimensional convective – dispersive solute-transport equation. USDA Tech. Bull. 1661.
van Genuchten, M. Th., Tang, D. H., and Guennelon, R. (1984). Some exact solutions for solute transport through soils containing large cylindrical macropores. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 20, 1303–1310.
SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL
JOURNAL OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING
JOURNAL OF SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASABE