NDLI: A Quasilinear Based Procedure for Saturated/Unsaturated Water Movement in Soils

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Author	Connell, L. D.
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	The quasilinear form of Richards’ equation for one-dimensional unsaturated flow in soils can be readily solved for a wide variety of conditions. However, it cannot explain saturated/unsaturated flow and the constant diffusivity assumption, used to linearise the transient quasilinear equation, can introduce significant error. This paper presents a quasi-analytical solution to transient saturated/unsaturated flow based on the quasilinear equation, with saturated flow explained by a transformed Darcy's equation. The procedure presented is based on the modified finite analytic method. With this approach, the problem domain is divided into elements, with the element equations being solutions to a constant coefficient form of the governing partial differential equation. While the element equations are based on a constant diffusivity assumption, transient diffusivity behaviour is incorporated by time stepping. Profile heterogeneity can be incorporated into the procedure by allowing flow properties to vary from element to element. Two procedures are presented for the temporal solution; a Laplace transform procedure and a finite difference scheme. An advantage of the Laplace transform procedure is the ability to incorporate transient boundary condition behaviour directly into the analytical solutions. The scheme is shown to work well for two different flow problems, for three soil types. The technique presented can yield results of high accuracy if the spatial discretisation is sufficient, or alternatively can produce approximate solutions with low computational overheads by using large sized elements. Error was shown to be stable, linearly related to element size.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	21
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01693913
Journal	Transport in Porous Media
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731634
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1999-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Hydrogeology Geotechnical Engineering Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Civil Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Catalysis

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