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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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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...
