Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils

Problem of water scarcity is becoming common in many parts of the world.  Thus to overcome this problem proper management of water and an efficient irrigation systems are needed.  Irrigation with buried vertical ceramic pipe is known as a very effective in management of irrigation water.  The two-...

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Autores principales: Zena Kamil Rasheed, Maysoon Basheer Abid
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6563110567d84945b03ed86f8b585b7d2021-12-02T06:16:27ZNumerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils10.22153/kej.2017.06.0031818-11712312-0789https://doaj.org/article/6563110567d84945b03ed86f8b585b7d2018-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://alkej.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/alkej/article/view/446https://doaj.org/toc/1818-1171https://doaj.org/toc/2312-0789 Problem of water scarcity is becoming common in many parts of the world.  Thus to overcome this problem proper management of water and an efficient irrigation systems are needed.  Irrigation with buried vertical ceramic pipe is known as a very effective in management of irrigation water.  The two- dimensional transient flow of water from a buried vertical ceramic pipe through homogenous porous media is simulated numerically using the software HYDRUS/2D to predict empirical formulas that describe the predicted results accurately.   Different values of pipe lengths and hydraulic conductivity were selected.  In addition, different values of initial volumetric soil water content were assumed in this simulation as initial conditions.  Different values of applied head were assumed in this simulation as a boundary conditions.  In general, a good agreement was obtained when comparing the predicted results with available measured values.  The results of this research showed that greater spreading occur in vertical direction.  Increasing applied heads, initial soil water contents, pipe hydraulic conductivities, cause increasing the size of wetting patterns.  Also the results showed that the empirical formulas which can be used for expressing the wetted width and depth in terms of applied head, initial soil water content, application time, pipe hydraulic conductivity, and pipe length, are good and can be used as a designing equations.   Zena Kamil RasheedMaysoon Basheer AbidAl-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of BaghdadarticleChemical engineeringTP155-156Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ENAl-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal, Vol 13, Iss 4 (2018)
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topic Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
spellingShingle Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Zena Kamil Rasheed
Maysoon Basheer Abid
Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
description Problem of water scarcity is becoming common in many parts of the world.  Thus to overcome this problem proper management of water and an efficient irrigation systems are needed.  Irrigation with buried vertical ceramic pipe is known as a very effective in management of irrigation water.  The two- dimensional transient flow of water from a buried vertical ceramic pipe through homogenous porous media is simulated numerically using the software HYDRUS/2D to predict empirical formulas that describe the predicted results accurately.   Different values of pipe lengths and hydraulic conductivity were selected.  In addition, different values of initial volumetric soil water content were assumed in this simulation as initial conditions.  Different values of applied head were assumed in this simulation as a boundary conditions.  In general, a good agreement was obtained when comparing the predicted results with available measured values.  The results of this research showed that greater spreading occur in vertical direction.  Increasing applied heads, initial soil water contents, pipe hydraulic conductivities, cause increasing the size of wetting patterns.  Also the results showed that the empirical formulas which can be used for expressing the wetted width and depth in terms of applied head, initial soil water content, application time, pipe hydraulic conductivity, and pipe length, are good and can be used as a designing equations.  
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Maysoon Basheer Abid
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title Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
title_short Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
title_full Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
title_fullStr Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
title_full_unstemmed Numerical Modeling of Water Movement from Buried Vertical Ceramic Pipes through Coarse Soils
title_sort numerical modeling of water movement from buried vertical ceramic pipes through coarse soils
publisher Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad
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