Observation and modeling on irregular purple soil water infiltration process
Observation and modeling on irregular purple soil water infiltration process作者机构:Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute Changjiang Water Resources Commission Wuhan 430010 China
出 版 物:《Journal of Mountain Science》 (山地科学学报(英文))
年 卷 期:2017年第14卷第6期
页 面:1076-1085页
核心收录:
学科分类:09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 090301[农学-土壤学]
基 金:supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41201268)
主 题:Purple soil Triangular profile Inverted triangular profiles Soil water infiltration Empirical modeling
摘 要:The infiltration process is a critical link between surface water and groundwater. In this research, a specific device to observe infiltration processes in homogeneous and heterogeneous soils with triangular and inverted triangular profiles was designed, and the Green-Ampt model was employed for the process simulation. The results indicate that(1) the wetting front in coarse texture soils transports faster than in fine texture soils;(2) for the homogeneous case, the wetting front in triangularshaped soils transports faster than the inverted triangular type, but the triangular-shaped soils show a lower infiltration rate;(3) in the initial step, the wetting front in triangular-shaped soils shows higher transport speed, but depicts lower speed with increase in the time;(4) both the wetting front and infiltration rate show a significant exponential relation with the time. From these findings, an empirical model was developed which agrees well with the observed data and provides a useful method for this field of soil research.