Stochastic Analysis of Seasonal Hydraulic Conductivity

by Ram Gupta, Univ of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,
Ramesh Rudra, Univ of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,
Trevor Dickinson, Univ of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,
Naveen Patni, Univ of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,
Greg Wall, Univ of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Irrigation and Drainage: Saving a Threatened Resource?In Search of Solutions

Abstract:

Infiltration data collected by a ring infiltrometer tests, for summer, fall, and spring seasons, were used to determine hydraulic conductivity using Philip's two-term infiltration equation. The spatial variation of hydraulic conductivity was then analyzed based on the stochastic theory. The analysis showed that the seasonal structure of hydraulic conductivity could be expressed by a combination of Fourier Series and autoregressive schemes.

Subject Headings: Stochastic processes | Hydraulic conductivity | Infiltration | Seasonal variations | Hydraulic models | Soil analysis | Regression analysis

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