Modified tension infiltrometer and its use to determine the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of upper vadose zone

Double-ring and Tension Infiltrometer Measurements of Hydraulic Conductivity and Mobile Soil Regions1

1. Article submitted on Sept./2010 and accepted for publishing on Aug./2011 (n° PAT 11376/ DOI: 10.5216/pat.v41i3.11376). 2. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Soil Physics, Halle, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. 3. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. 4. Martin-Luther...

Effective Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Steady-state and transient one-dimensional unsaturated flow in vertically stratified porous media are examined. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and the alpha parameter of the exponential hydraulic conductivity function were assumed to vary from soil layer to soil layer. The use of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity to compute matric potential in the soil profile is demonstrated. Resu...

Measurement and Modeling of Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Determining Soil Hydraulic Properties from Tension Infiltrometer Measurements: Fuzzy Regression

numerical instability can be problems. Therefore, the nonlinear least-squares regression method introduced Tension infiltrometer measurements have been used to measure by Logsdon and Jaynes (1993) has been widely used, steady-state infiltration rates at applied tensions. The measurements owing to its simplicity. They estimated saturated hycan be used to determined soil hydraulic properties thro...

Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Fractal-Textured Soils