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HYDROPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POROUS BODY AS IN-<br />

PUT DATA FOR WATER TRANSPORT MODELS<br />

Walczak R. T., Sławiński C., Witkowska-Walczak B.<br />

ABSTRACT<br />

The water retention, saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity coefficients<br />

are the basic hydrophysical characteristics of the <strong>soil</strong>. The correct determination<br />

of those characteristics is indispensable to obtain the required accuracy of the<br />

used models of water transport in <strong>soil</strong> profile. Therefore, the methods of measurement<br />

and estimation of these characteristics are extensively developed.<br />

DETERMINATION OF STATIC WATER RETENTION CURVE<br />

The dependence between <strong>soil</strong> water potential and <strong>soil</strong> water content, called the<br />

<strong>soil</strong> water retention curve (Fig.1), is a basic hydrophysical <strong>soil</strong> property. The static<br />

<strong>soil</strong> water retention curve is determined in Richards chambers or on the sandygypsum<br />

blocks. It is determined for the state of thermodynamic equilibrium which<br />

is obtained after the specific time.<br />

2<br />

1<br />

Fig. 1. An exemplary of static water retention curve for loamy (1) and sandy (2) <strong>soil</strong>s.<br />

DETERMINATION OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY COEFFICIENT<br />

AND DYNAMIC RETENTION CURVE<br />

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity is one of the most important physical <strong>soil</strong><br />

characteristics. Applying TDR techniques [2, 3, 6] and the instantaneous profile<br />

method (IPM) the measurement of hydraulic conductivity coefficient k(ψ) and also<br />

dynamic retention curve θ(ψ) has become much faster and effective. It was demonstrated,<br />

that this method gives accurate results for various initial and boundary<br />

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