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Research article
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15 Feb 2023
Research article |
| 15 Feb 2023
| 15 Feb 2023
Effects of dynamic changes of desiccation cracks on preferential flow: experimental investigation and numerical modeling
Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan),
Wuhan, 430074, China
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, P.O. Box 5048,
2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
Jiaming Zhang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan),
Wuhan, 430074, China
Zhi Zhou
Department of Engineering Management, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, 430205, China
Juan P. Aguilar-Lopez
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
Roberto Greco
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, via Roma 29, 81031, Aversa, Italy
Thom Bogaard
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, P.O. Box 5048,
2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
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- Modeling and Application of the Hydrus-2D Model for Simulating Preferential Flow in Loess Soil Under Various Scenarios S. Li et al.
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- An Urban Lake Drainage Catena: Influences of Terrain, Soils, and Precipitation H. Dhaliwal et al.
- Dynamics of carbon dioxide emission during cracking in peanut shell biochar-amended soil E. Kravchenko et al.
- Effect of crack depth on the initiation and propagation of crack-induced sliding in a paleosol area on a loess slope: Three-dimensional investigation based on model testing and laser scanning Y. Zhu et al.
- Conceptual Model of Expansive Rock or Soil Swelling B. Kavur et al.
- Durability of the bio-carbonated reactive MgO cemented construction and demolition waste: Effect of wetting-drying cycles D. Wang et al.
- Biomimetic dendritic root structures for enhancing wind-driven interfacial evaporation from complex particle-laden wastewater T. Kumar et al.
- Combining the Transport of Pendular Water with Wind-Assisted Interfacial Evaporation for Dewatering of Concentrated Slurry Waste T. Kumar et al.
- Exploring the effects of weather-driven dynamics of desiccation cracks on hydrological process of expansive clay slope: Insights from physical model test Y. Luo et al.
- Water flooding patterns combined with fissure conductivity transition in sandy soil: insights from physical model tests H. Dong et al.
- Impact of dynamic desiccation cracks on hydrological processes and stability in expansive clay slopes: A coupled dual-permeability modeling approach Y. Luo et al.
- Soil crack healing, recurrence and the temporal persistence of preferential flow under wet-dry cycles revealed by deep-learning image analysis and breakthrough curves Q. Zhang et al.
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Short summary
This paper describes an experiment and modeling of the hydrological response of desiccation cracks under long-term wetting–drying cycles. We developed a new dynamic dual-permeability model to quantify the dynamic evolution of desiccation cracks and associated preferential flow and moisture distribution. Compared to other models, the dynamic dual-permeability model could describe the experimental data much better, but it also provided an improved description of the underlying physics.
This paper describes an experiment and modeling of the hydrological response of desiccation...
