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Water Transport Phenomena Linked to Soil Structure
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Water Transport Phenomena Linked to Soil Structure

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Erosion and Sediment Transport".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 4122

Special Issue Editors

Dr. J. E. Lopez-Periago

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UVIGO · Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain
Interests: soil hydrology and transport; soil physics; soil science; environmental science; hydraulic conductivity
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Dr. Diego Soto Gómez

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Department of Agricultural Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: soil physics; soil microbiology; pollutant transport; perennial crops; pore architecture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to disseminate the most recent progress on water transport phenomena in porous media, with special emphasis on the influence of the spatial organization of soil pore networks and their interfaces. We welcome submission of original works on innovative developments on water status and flow, including, among other topics:

- Complexity of structured pore networks related to water flow;

- Modeling water flow in structured porous media;

- Pore-scale flow and fluid phase displacement;

- Preferential flow phenomena;

- Advances in computed image analysis to study flow in porous media.

Dr. J. E. Lopez-Periago
Dr. Diego Soto Gómez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water flow
  • percolation
  • soil moisture
  • soil structure
  • soil management
  • soil architecture
  • irrigation
  • infiltration
  • computer tomography
  • image analysis
  • fluid mechanics

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Enhancing Water Infiltration through Heavy Soils with Sand-Ditch Technique
by Majed Abu-Zreig, Haruyuki Fujimaki and Mohamed Ahmed Abd Elbasit
Water 2020, 12(5), 1312; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051312 - 06 May 2020
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Enhancing rainwater infiltration into heavy soils is an important strategy in arid regions to increase soil water storage and meet crop water demand. In such soils, water infiltration and deep percolation can be enhanced by constructing deep ditches filled with permeable materials, such [...] Read more.
Enhancing rainwater infiltration into heavy soils is an important strategy in arid regions to increase soil water storage and meet crop water demand. In such soils, water infiltration and deep percolation can be enhanced by constructing deep ditches filled with permeable materials, such as sand. Laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the effect of sand ditch installed across the slope of a soil box, 50 × 20 × 20 cm3, on runoff interception and water infiltration of clay soil packed at two bulk densities, 1240 and 1510 kg/m3. The experiments were carried out under laboratory conditions using simulated steady flow of about 20 cm/h for a duration of 60 min. Results showed that sand ditches highly reduced runoff and largely enhanced water infiltration into soils. In low-density soil, the average runoff was 15% of inflow volume but reduced to zero in the presence of sand ditches thus increasing soil water storage by 15%. In high-density soil, the presence of sand ditches was more effective; infiltration volume increased by 156% compared to control. The WASH_2D model was used to simulate water flow in the presence of sand ditches; it showed to increase water infiltration and soil-moisture storage thus improving crop production in drylands. Full article
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