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NAME : CHIVUKULA SAIRAM SATWIK

ROLL NO : 17CE8038
DATE : 15-04-2020
 HYDRUS – 1D
Hydrus-1D is a public domain Windows-based modeling environment for analysis of water flow
and solute transport in variably saturated porous media. The software package includes the one-
dimensional finite element model HYDRUS for simulating the movement of water, heat, and
multiple solutes in variably saturated media. The model is supported by an interactive graphics-
based interface for data-preprocessing, discretization of the soil profile, and graphic presentation
of the results.

Let us go through some examples.

Example 1: INFILTRATION OF WATER INTO A SINGLE LAYERED SOIL PROFILE

This example problem involves infiltration of water from a ponded soil surface into a 1-m deep
single-layered loam soil. The soil profile is initially unsaturated, having an initial pressure head of
-100 cm. Water infiltrates from the saturated soil surface, which is represented by a ‘Constant
Pressure Head’ boundary condition by assuming that the pressure head at the soil surface is 1
cm (corresponding to the ponding depth). Water drains from the bottom of the soil profile by
gravity since the groundwater table is at an unspecified point deep in the profile.

By observing the data at equal intervals of height of 20cm (0cm,20cm,40cm,60cm,80cm,100cm).

Like the above graphs, we can obtain relations between any two parameters required for the
situation.

EXAMPLE 2: INFILTRATION OF WATER INTO TWO LAYERED SOIL PROFILE

The objective of this example is to simulate water flow in a 1-m deep, two-layered soil profile. The
example demonstrates how to specify time-variable atmospheric boundary conditions (daily
values of precipitation and evaporation) and how to interpret simulated results, such as actual
boundary fluxes. The soil profile consists of a 50-cm soil layer of clay loam underlain by a 50-cm
soil layer of sandy loam. The initially unsaturated soil profile (having a default initial pressure
head = -100 cm) is wetted via precipitation during the first 7 days of the simulation. Precipitation
changes from 6 cm/d during the first 2 days, to 10 cm/d during the next three days, and finally to
2 cm/d during the last 2 days of the first week. The ‘Atmospheric Boundary Condition with a
Surface Layer’ is invoked, which allows accumulation or ponding of water on the soil surface, with
surface runoff occurring only if a user-defined threshold (the maximum ponding depth) has been
exceeded. In this example, a different lower boundary condition is imposed, i.e., a ‘Seepage
Face' boundary condition. Water starts draining from the soil profile through the bottom ' Seepage
Face' boundary condition only once the bottom of the profile reaches full saturation (the pressure
head becomes zero). As the simulations will show, the soil profile continues to drain until day 10,
after which evaporation (1 cm/d) is activated until the end of the 20-day simulation.

By observing the data at equal intervals of height of 50cm(0cm,50cm, 100cm).