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A Comparison of Numerical Simulation Models For One-Dimensional Infiltration¹

ABSTRACT

Six models, employing different ways of discretization of the nonlinear infiltration equation were compared in terms of execution time, accuracy, and programming considerations. All models yielded excellent agreement with water content profiles measured at various times in a sand column. The two explicit models, the -based CSMP model and the h-based explicit model, used between 5 and 10 times more computer time than the implicit models. Results obtained with the two models which used the Kirchhoff integral transformation were no better than those obtained with the two h-based implicit models. The implicit schemes with implicit, or explicit evaluation of the hydraulic conductivity and water capacity functions appear to have the widest range of applicability for predicting water movement in soil with both saturated and nonsaturated regions. Excellent agreement was obtained between water content distributions, infiltration rates, and cumulative infiltration volumes calculated with the implicit finite difference model and Philip's quasi-analytical solution.

¹ Contribution from the Institut de Mécanique, Université Scientifique et Médicale, B. P. 53, GRENOBLE (France). Supported in part from Ministère de al Qualité de la Vie, Environement, PARIS. Grant. 75.102.

² Research Associate, Attaché de Recherche CNRS, Research Associate, Associate Professor, and Maître de Recherches CNRS, respectively.

³ On sabbatical leave (1975) from the Dep. of Agronomy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003.

Received for publication July 19, 1976. Accepted for publication November 18, 1976.

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