WATER FLOW IN SOIL MACROPORES II. A COMBINED FLOW MODEL

SEVEN, K. and GERMANN, P. (1981) WATER FLOW IN SOIL MACROPORES II. A COMBINED FLOW MODEL. Journal of Soil Science, 32 (1). pp. 15-29. ISSN 0022-4588

Abstract

This paper presents a one‐dimensional model of bulk flow in a combined micropore/macropore system, which has been developed as a result of the experimental work described in Part I. The problems posed by the presence of macropores to model development and validation are discussed and one exploratory model formulation is described. The results of several simulations are presented and used to demonstrate the effect of macropores on infiltration rates in soils of different hydraulic conductivity.