Numerical simulations of water movement in a subsurface drip irrigation system under field and laboratory conditions using HYDRUS-2D

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1070-1076

  Kandelous, Maziar M ^a   Šimůnek, Jiří ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HYDRUS 2D; Subsurface drip irrigation; Wetting dimensions

Indexed keywords

CLAY LOAM SOILS; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYDRUS-2D; IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLUTE MOVEMENT; SUBSURFACE DRIP IRRIGATION; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER LOSS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETTING DIMENSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; SUBIRRIGATION; WETTING;

WATER RESOURCES;

DRIP IRRIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE; WETTING;

EID: 77950516777     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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