Physically Based Coupled Model for Simulating 1D Surface–2D Subsurface Flow and Plant Water Uptake in Irrigation Furrows. I: Model Development

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Physically based modeling of the interacting water flow during a furrow irrigation season can contribute to both a sustainable irrigation management and an improvement of the furrow irrigation efficiency. This paper presents a process based seasonal furrow irrigation model which describes the interacting one-dimensional surface–two-dimensional subsurface flow and crop growth during a whole growing period. The irrigation advance model presented in a previous study is extended to all hydraulic phases of an irrigation event. It is based on an analytical solution of the zero-inertia surface flow equations and is iteratively coupled with the two-dimensional subsurface flow model HYDRUS-2. A conceptual crop growth model calculates daily evaporation, transpiration and leaf area index. The crop model and HYDRUS-2 are coupled via its common boundaries, namely (1) by the flux across the soil-atmosphere interface; and (2) by the flux from the root zone, which is associated with the plant water uptake. We assume the ...

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