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Preface | |
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Soil Solid Phase | |
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Introduction | |
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Soil Phases | |
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Soil Texture | |
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Soil Mineralogy | |
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Soil Structure | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Problems | |
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Soil Water Content and Potential | |
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Introduction | |
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Energy and Work | |
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Properties of Bulk Water | |
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Properties of Water at Air and Solid Interfaces | |
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Soil Water Content | |
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Measuring Soil Water Content | |
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Gravimetric Methods | |
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Time Domain Reflectometry | |
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Neutron Thermalization | |
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Capacitance Devices | |
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Soil Water Potential | |
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Gravitational Component | |
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Hydrostatic Component | |
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Solute Component | |
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Matric Component | |
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Air Pressure Component | |
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Total Soil Water Potential | |
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Measuring Soil Water Potential Components | |
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Tensiometers | |
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Piezometers | |
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Thermocouple Psychrometers | |
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Heat Dissipation Sensors | |
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Electrical Resistance Sensors | |
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Tension Plates and Pressure Chambers | |
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Tension Plates | |
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Pressure Chambers | |
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Pressure Chambers with Disturbed Samples | |
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The Soil Water Retention Curve | |
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Texture and Structure Effects | |
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Plant Available Water | |
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Hysteresis in the Soil Water Retention Curve | |
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Soil Water Retention Curve Equations | |
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RETC Program | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Capillary Rise Law | |
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Hydraulic Capacity Function for van Genuchten Equation | |
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Problems | |
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Steady Water Flow in Soils | |
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Introduction | |
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Steady Flow in Saturated Soil | |
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Poiseuille Equation | |
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Darcy Equation | |
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Saturated Flow Parameters | |
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Flow Perpendicular to Layers | |
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Flow Parallel to Layers | |
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Flow to a Drain | |
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Steady Flow in Unsaturated Soil | |
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Buckingham-Darcy Equation | |
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Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity | |
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Macroscopic Capillary Length | |
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Analytical Solutions for Steady Flow | |
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Infiltration to a Water Table | |
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Infiltration from a Ring | |
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Infiltration from a Borehole | |
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Measurements of Hydraulic Properties | |
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Laboratory Methods | |
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Field Methods | |
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Pedotransfer Functions | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Poiseuille Equation | |
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The Drainage Ellipse Equation | |
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The van Genuchten K(S<sup>e</sup>) Function | |
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Relationship between the Gardner Exponent and Macroscopic Capillary Length | |
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Steady Infiltration to a Water Table | |
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The Falling-Head Method | |
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Problems | |
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Heat Flow in Soils | |
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Introduction | |
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Surface Energy Balance | |
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Steady Soil Heat Flux | |
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Transient Soil Heat Flux | |
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Heat Transport Equation | |
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Analytical Solutions to the Heat Transport Equation | |
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Numerical Solutions to the Heat Flow Equation | |
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Soil Heat Flow with HYDRUS-1D | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Properties of the Laplace Transform | |
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Laplace Transform Solution to the Heat Flow Equation | |
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Properties of the Complementary Error Function | |
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Problems | |
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Transient Water Flow in Soils | |
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Introduction | |
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Transient Water Flow | |
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The Richards Equation | |
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Initial Conditions | |
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Boundary Conditions | |
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System-Independent Boundary Conditions | |
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System-Dependent Boundary Conditions | |
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Numerical Solutions to the Richards Equation | |
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Infiltration | |
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Infiltration into a Uniform Soil | |
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Soil Crusts and Subsurface Layers | |
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Infiltration Equations | |
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Green-Ampt Equations | |
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Curve Number Approach | |
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Borehole Infiltration | |
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Subsurface Irrigation | |
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Redistribution | |
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Evaporation | |
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Transpiration | |
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Preferential Flow | |
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Macropores | |
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Fingering and Funnel Flow | |
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Capillary Barriers | |
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Groundwater Recharge and Discharge | |
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Inverse Solutions and Parameter Optimization | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Problems | |
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Solute Transport | |
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Introduction | |
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Conservation and Flux Equations | |
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Conservation Equation | |
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Transport Processes | |
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Advection | |
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Diffusion | |
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Hydrodynamic Dispersion | |
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Advection Dispersion Equation | |
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Analytical Solution | |
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Breakthrough Curves | |
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Pulse Inputs | |
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Equilibrium Adsorption and the Advection Dispersion Equation | |
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Linear Equilibrium Adsorption | |
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Nonlinear Equilibrium Adsorption | |
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Transformations and the Advection Dispersion Equation | |
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Volatilization and the Advection Dispersion Equation | |
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Flux vs. Resident Concentrations | |
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Nonequilibrium Solute Transport | |
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Physical Nonequilibrium | |
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Chemical Nonequilibrium | |
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Stochastic Advection Dispersion Equation | |
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STANMOD and CXTFIT | |
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Direct Mode | |
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Inverse Mode and Parameter Optimization | |
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Numerical Approaches for Solute Transport | |
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Finite Difference Approach | |
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Finite Element Approach | |
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Stability and Oscillations | |
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HYDRUS Examples of Solute Transport | |
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Nonlinear Adsorption and Transport | |
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Transport of Nitrogen Species | |
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Parameter Optimization of Nitrogen Species Model | |
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Solute Transport in the Capillary Fringe | |
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Summary | |
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Derivations | |
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Laplace Transform Solution to ADE | |
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Expected Value for the Lognormal Distribution | |
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Numerical Dispersion | |
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Problems | |
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Appendix | |
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References | |
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Index | |