Two-Dimensional Similarity Solution: Theory and Application to the Determination of Soil-Water Diffusivity
1975
Turner, Neil C. | Parlange, J.-Y. (Jean-Yves)
The Bruce and Klute methods (1956) to measure the soil-water diffusivity (D) relies on the existence of a similarity solution for the one-dimensional movement of water when the soil-water potential is maintained constant at one end of a horizontal column of soil. If the flux is kept constant along a line-source, a similarity solution exists also in two-dimensions and an exact equation for this case is derived: where θₒ is the initial moisture content, θ is the moisture content after time, t, and ψ is the similarity variable. The application of this equation in measuring the soil-water diffusivity of a sandy soil is shown.
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