Abstract Geosynthetic clay liners are widely used as hydraulic barrier due to their low conductivity but bentonite in the loses its effectiveness significant thermal fluxes by both diurnal and seasonal heating cooling cycles. Modified sodium carboxy methyl cellulose-based (HYPER clay) has shown better performance situations. A possible reason for this improved of HYPER based geosynthetic liner ...

The Arya-Paris model is an indirect method to estimate the soil water characteristic from particle-size data. The scaling parameter, a, in the original model was assumed constant for all soil textures. In this study, a is defined as a, = (logJV//log«,-), where n, is the number of spherical particles in the ith particle-size fraction (determined by the fraction solid mass, wh and mean particle r...

Constructed wetland treatment systems are used to remove selenium (Se) from flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater (WW). However, direct confirmation of the mechanism responsible for FGD WW Se retention in soil is lacking. A laboratory-based soil column study was performed to develop an evidence-based mechanism of Se retention and to study the behavior and the retention capacity of FGD WW co...

Inverse solution techniques currently used for estimating unsaturated soil hydraulic functions from laboratory outflow experiments use cumulative outflow only in combination with initial and final soil water pressure head values. Additional soil water information is needed to improve the estimation procedure and to minimize uniqueness problems. It was the objective of this study to experimental...

The aim of the thesis is to develop a numerical model based on first principles for the simulation of change of size of soil pores during drying of soft soil. This model is suitable for the type of soil consisting of clay with layered structure, such as Montmorillonite. In this study, the geometry of the soil pore is idealized by a triangle consisting of three sand grains and clay fabrics conne...

abstract scaling methods, which are based on similar media theory, are used to simplify the statistic description of soil spatial variations. to simulate the water flow in heterogeneous soils, simultaneous scaling of soil hydraulic functions, including soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity functions, is highly desirable. in the similar media theory, the simultaneous scalin...

Soil water retention curve (SWRC) and saturated hydraulic conductivity (SHC) are key hydraulic properties for unsaturated zone hydrology and groundwater. In particular, SWRC provides useful information on entry pore-size distribution, and SHC is required for flow and transport modeling in the hydrologic cycle. Not only the SWRC and SHC measurements are time-consuming, but also scale dependent. ...