NDLI: Wetting Front Expansion Model for Non-Ponding Rainfall Infiltration in Soils with Uniform and Non-Uniform Initial Moisture Content

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Wetting Front Expansion Model for Non-Ponding Rainfall Infiltration in Soils with Uniform and Non-Uniform Initial Moisture Content

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Author	Yao, Maohong Chen, Tielin Wei, Xueda Tao, Wenbin Fan, Rong Liu, Jingjing
Copyright Year	2022
Description	The rainfall infiltration model plays a key role in the fields of seepage theory and geological hazard evaluation. To reflect the change in the moisture content in soil during rainfall infiltration, the infiltration process was segmented into stages, and an improved unsaturated wetting front extension model was proposed by introducing unsaturated soil parameters on the basis of the traditional infiltration model. The variation rules of surface moisture content and wetting front depth were revealed under the condition of uniform or non-uniform moisture content distribution in soil. The results indicate that the surface moisture content and wetting front depth increase nonlinearly with time during the infiltration process, and the proposed model is in good agreement with the numerical simulation results, the maximum error is less than 5%, while the growth rate under two hypotheses shows obvious differences for different rainfall intensities. Moreover, due to the variation in the moisture content with time, the proposed model calculates a lower moisture content than that of the traditional model under the same conditions, but the expansion depth of the wetting front is higher and the range of influence on soil is greater.
Starting Page	6185
e-ISSN	20763417
DOI	10.3390/app12126185
Journal	Applied Sciences
Issue Number	12
Volume Number	12
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2022-06-17
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Sciences Unsaturated Soil Wetting Front Rainfall Infiltration Moisture Content Distribution
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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