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Concept

Équation de Richards

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Improved framework to estimate travel time and derived distributions in hydrological control volumes

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Crossing properties of soil saturation, defined as the duration and excursion of soil saturation below and above certain thresholds, are key variables to ecosystem functioning and evolution by primarily influencing the plant and soil microbes physiological ...

EPFL2022

Watertable fluctuation-induced variability in the water retention curve: Sand column experiments

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

The soil water retention curve (WRC), describing the relation between the soil water content and its corresponding capillary pressure, relies not only on whether drying or wetting occurs but also on the pore scale water flow velocity. Here, we investigated ...

2020

Model of crop growth, water flow, and solute transport in layered soil

David Andrew Barry, Jiancheng Yang, Jian Yang

Agro-ecohydrological models are essential for managing scarce water resources and ensuring crop productivity. Here, a one-dimensional agro-ecohydrological model, LAWSTAC, capable of simulating water and solute transport in layered soil coupled with crop gr ...

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Development of a methodology for extreme flood estimations in alpine catchments for the verification of dam safety

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In the context of dam safety, reliable safety flood estimation methods are necessary to guarantee a sufficiently designed spillway capacity. Todayâ s state of the art allows to approach this topic under different angles. Statistical extrapolations are com ...

EPFL2017

Macropores and water flow in soils revisited

The original review of macropores and water flow in soils by Beven and Germann is now 30 years old and has become one of the most highly cited papers in hydrology. This paper attempts to review the progress in observations and theoretical reasoning about p ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

Capillary effect on watertable fluctuations in unconfined aquifers

David Andrew Barry

Parlange and Brutsaert [1987] derived a modified Boussinesq equation to account for the capillary effect on watertable dynamics in unconfined aquifers. Barry et al. [1996] solved this equation subject to a periodic boundary condition. Their solution shows ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Hydromechanically coupled analysis of transient phenomena in a rainfall-induced landslide

Lyesse Laloui, Mathieu Nuth, John Eichenberger

Heavy rainfall can lead to shallow slips in slopes that are initially in a state of partial water saturation. Multiphysics numerical modelling approaches taking into account the involved physical key processes in variably saturated soils during rainfall ev ...

International Center for Computational Engineering (IC2E)2011

Modeling the Onset of Shallow Landslides in Partially Saturated Slopes Subjected to Rain Infiltration

Lyesse Laloui, Mathieu Nuth, John Eichenberger

Heavy rainfall can lead to shallow slips on slopes which are often initially in a state of partial water saturation. A multiphysics approach and advanced constitutive modeling are necessary to take into account the physical key processes in partially satur ...

ASCE2011

Reactive transport in unsaturated Soil: Comprehensive modelling of the dynamic spatial and temporal mass balance of water and chemical components

David Andrew Barry, Laurin Wissmeier

By implementing the moisture-based form of Richards' equation into the geochemical modelling framework PHREEQC, a generic tool for the simulation of one-dimensional flow and solute transport in the vadose zone undergoing complex geochemical reactions was d ...

2008

A Toolbox of Models for Evaluating Appropriateness of Infiltration Predictions in Coupled Surface and Subsurface Flow Applications

Dani Or

A number of coupled surface and subsurface flow models include Richards' equation (RE) solutions to simulate flow through the vadose zone, but the question of the appropriate application of RE at the watershed scale remains unclear. Published applications ...

2005