Abstract
Irrigation practices that are profligate in their use of water have come under closer scrutinyby water managers and the public. Trickle irrigation has the propensity to increase water use efficiencybut only if the system is designed to meet the soil and plant conditions. Recently we have provided asoftware tool, WetUp, to calculate the wetting patterns from trickle irrigation emitters. WetUp uses ananalytical solution to calculate the wetted perimeter for both buried and surface emitters. Thisanalytical solution has a number of assumptions, one of which is that the hydraulic conductivity (k) atthe wetting front is a specific value. Here we compare the wetting patterns calculated with a 2-dimensional numerical model, HYDRUS2D, for solving the flow into typical soils with the analyticalsolution. The results show that the wetting patterns are similar. Difficulties were experienced withgetting stable solutions with HYDRUS2D for soils with low hydraulic conductivities.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Integrative Modelling of Biophysical, Social and Economic Systems for Resource Management Solutions |
| Editors | D.A. Post |
| Place of Publication | Australia |
| Publisher | Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand |
| Pages | 212-217 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 174052098X |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
| Event | MODSIM 2003 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. - Townsville, Queensland, Australia Duration: 14 Jul 2003 → 17 Jul 2003 |
Conference
| Conference | MODSIM 2003 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| Period | 14/07/03 → 17/07/03 |