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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-637-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-637-2019
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Research article
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04 Feb 2019
Research article |
| 04 Feb 2019
| 04 Feb 2019
Capturing soil-water and groundwater interactions with an iterative feedback coupling scheme: new HYDRUS package for MODFLOW
Jicai Zeng
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
present address: Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Jinzhong Yang
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Yuanyuan Zha
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Liangsheng Shi
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Short summary
Accurately capturing the soil-water–groundwater interaction is vital for all disciplines related to subsurface flow but is difficult when undergoing significant nonlinearity in the modeling system. A new soil-water flow package is developed to solve the switching-form Richards’ equation. A multi-scale water balance analysis joins unsaturated–saturated models at separated scales. The whole system is solved efficiently with an iterative feedback coupling scheme.
Accurately capturing the soil-water–groundwater interaction is vital for all disciplines related...
