The study of solute transport processes in the soil requires the determination of the adsorption coefficient. A laboratory experiment based on Batch equilibrium method was developed. This method involves contacting a chosen soil with water solutions with different concentrations and adjusted the obtained isotherms on analytical models. The method was applied to three soils and the results have ...

Factors affecting preferential flow and transport in the vadose zone need to be investigated by experiments and simulations to protect groundwater against surface applied chemicals. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of several factors (soil structure, initial soil water content (SWC), and application rate) and their interactions on the extent of preferential flow and ...

Solute transport with nonlinear adsorption occurs in many situations involving inorganic chemical and metal contamination in soil and groundwater systems. The resulting isotherms can be highly nonlinear, and numerical solutions of the transport equation can encounter severe convergence difficulties. An analytical solution is developed for simulating one-dimensional transport in the layered soil...

An improved genetic algorithm was applied and examined to optimize the weights of a neural network model for estimating root length density (RLD) distributions of winter wheat under salinity stress. Thereafter, soil water and solute transport with root-water-uptake in a soil-wheat system were simulated numerically, in which the estimated RLD distributions were incorporated. The results showed t...

Soil micromorphology was applied to specify flow domains in different soils and to select a suitable numerical model for simulation of water flow and herbicide transport. Pore structure detected on soil micromorphological images represented in all cases domains of prevailing water flow and solute transport. Depending on pore configuration and boundary conditions either water immobilization or p...

many mathematical models have been applied and developed for simulation of water and solute transport in irrigated agriculture. using a model, it should be first calibrated and validated for different regions. swap is a field scale model that simulates water, solute and heat movement in the soil profile. in this study, the swap model was evaluated for two years (2001 and 2002) on wheat in a sem...

Abstract. Solute transport in the subsurface is often considered to be a nonequilibrium process. Nonequilibrium during transport of solutes in porous medium has been categorized as either transport-related or sorption-related. For steady state flow in a homogeneous soil and assuming a linear sorption process, we will consider advection-diffusion adsorption equations. In this paper, numerical me...