A new, flexible and widely applicable software package for the simulation of one-dimensional moisture flow: SoWaM

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1127-1132

  Wesseling, Jan G ^a   Ritsema, Coen J ^a   Oostindie, Klaas ^a   Stoof, Cathelijne R ^a   Dekker, Louis W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Irrigation requirement; Numerical model; One dimensional moisture flow; Soil hydraulic properties; Water balance; Water management

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENTS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOISTURE FLOW; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; WATER BALANCE;

FLOW SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; IRRIGATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; IRRIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW;

EID: 67349166168     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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