Sensitivity analysis of furrow-irrigation performance parameters

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-57

  Zerihun, Dawit ^a   Feyen, Jan ^a   Mohan Reddy, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DESIGN; EVALUATION; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERFORMANCE; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FURROW IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION PARAMETERS; MANNING'S ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ZERO INERTIA MODEL;

IRRIGATION;

ANALYSIS; COST; FURROW IRRIGATION;

EID: 0029677632     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9437(1996)122:1(49)     Document Type: Article

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