Validity limits for the van Genuchten-Mualem model and implications for parameter estimation and numerical simulation

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1780-1789

  Ippisch, O ^a   Vogel, H J ^a   Bastian, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical solutions; Soil hydraulic properties; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; UNSATURATED FLOW; VAN GENUCHTEN-MUALEM MODEL; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOILS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 33745904549     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. van Genuchten M.T., and Nielsen D.R. On describing and predicting the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils. Ann Geophys 3 5 (1985) 615-628
2. Mualem Y. A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media. Water Resour Res 12 (1976) 513-522
3. Brooks R.H., and Corey A.T. Properties of porous media affecting fluid flow. J Irrigation Drainage Div, in: Proc Am Soc Civil Eng (IR2) 92 (1966) 61-88
4. van Genuchten M.T. A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 44 (1980) 892-898
5. Luckner L., van Genuchten M.T., and Nielsen D.R. A consistent set of parametric models for the two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in the subsurface. Water Resour Res 25 (1989) 2187-2193
6. Nielsen DR, Luckner L. Limits in identification procedures for soil hydraulic properties. In: Van Genuchten MT, Leij FJ, Lund LJ, editors. Indirect methods for estimating the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils, US Salinity Laboratory, University of California, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA, 1992. 147-160.
7. Fuentes C, Haverkamp R, Parlange J-Y. Parameter constraints on soil water characteristics. In: Van Genuchten MT, Leij FJ, Lund LJ, editors. Indirect methods for estimating the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils, US Salinity Laboratory, University of California, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA, 1992. 161-167.
8. Vogel T., and Cislerova M. On the reliability of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity calculated from the moisture retention curve. Transp in Por Med 3 (1988) 1-15
9. Vogel T., van Genuchten M.T., and Cislerova M. Effect of the shape of the soil hydraulic functions near saturation on variably-saturated flow predictions. Adv Water Resour 24 (2001) 133-144
10. Burdine N.T. Relative permeability calculations from pore-size distribution data. Petr Trans, Am Inst Mining Metall Eng 198 (1953) 71-77
11. Childs E.C., and Collis-George N. The permeability of porous materials. Proc Royal Soc London 201A (1950) 392-405
12. Van Dam J.C., Stricker J.N.M., and Droogers P. Inverse method to determine soil hydraulic functions from multistep outflow experiments. Soil Sci Soc Am J 58 (1994) 647-652
13. Hopmans J.W., Simunek J., Romano N., and Durner W. Simultaneous determination of water transmission and retention properties. Inverse methods. In: Dane J.H., and Topp G.C. (Eds). Methods of Soil analysis. Part 4 (2002), SSSA, Madison (WI)
14. Bitterlich S., Durner W., Iden S., and Knabner P. Inverse estimation of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from column outflow experiments using free-form parameterizations. Vadose Zone J 3 (2003) 971-981
15. Vogel H.-J., Cousin I., Ippisch O., and Bastian P. The dominant role of structure for solute transport in soil: Experimental evidence and modelling of structure and transport in a field experiment. Hydrol Earth Sys Sci Discuss 2 (2005) 2153-2181