abstract the coupled modflow-hydrus software package was used to produce a saturated-unsaturated flow model for a flood spreading system (fss) and its associated aquifer. the study aim to improve simulations of near-surface hydrological processes, including temporal and spatial variation in groundwater recharge rates. the coupled model was built with average rmse=1.1 and 1.3 for calibration and...

We derive 1D steady equilibria for partially saturated downslope flow as a solution to the reposed vadose-zone problem. The equilibria are determined by two free parameters: a mean flow and a downstream saturation. Where there is no downstream saturation, a uniform outflow of constant saturation is obtained, but if an isolated zone of excess downstream saturation exists, the upstream flow speed...

Local mass conservation is of great importance for accurate simulation of fluid flows, especially if the resulting velocity field is to be coupled to a transport equation. Previous work on simulation of saturated groundwater flows have used both mixed finite element methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods to achieve local mass conservation. However, legacy code using a continuous Galerkin fi...

The formulation and existence theory is presented for a system modeling diffusion of a slightly compressible fluid through a partially saturated poroelastic medium. Nonlinear effects of density, saturation, porosity and permeability variations with pressure are included, and the seepage surface is determined by a variational inequality on the boundary.

Aquifer drainage was numerically simulated by a coupled, unsaturated-saturated flow equation. The effect of the vadose zone on aquifer parameter predictions of classical hydraulic theory was investigated. Saturated-zone hydraulic theory was shown to be fairly robust in estimating the saturated hydraulic conductivity but less so in estimating drainable porosity, mainly because of the much tighte...