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HYDRUS-1D Tutorial Example 2
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Inverse Problem - One-Step Outflow Method

Project Manager
  • Button "New"
  • Name: Onestep
  • Description: Onestep Outflow Method
  • Button "OK"
Main Processes
  • Heading: Onestep Outflow Method
  • Check "Inverse Solution"
Inverse Solution
  • Check "Soil Hydraulic Parameters"
  • Check "No Internal Weighting"
  • Max. Number of Iteration: 20
  • Number of Data Points: 10
Geometry Information
  • Number of Soil Materials: 2
  • Number of Layers for Mass Balances: 2
  • Depth of the Soil Profile: 4.52
Time Information
  • Time Units: Hours
  • Final time: 100
  • Initial Time Step: 0.001
  • Minimum Time Step: 0.0001
  • Maximum Time Step: 10
Print Information
  • Uncheck "Screen Output"
  • Number of Print Times: 10
  • Button "Select Print Times":
    • 0.017
    • 0.033
    • 0.05
    • 0.167
    • 0.5
    • 1.33
    • 5.417
    • 10
    • 15
    • 100
Water Flow - Iteration Criteria
  • Upper Limit of the Tension Interval: 15000
Water Flow - Soil Hydraulic Model
Water Flow - Soil Hydraulic Parameters
  • Initial Estimate:
    • qr=0.15
    • qs=0.388
    • a=0.025
    • n=1.5
    • Ks=5.4
    • l= 0.5
  • Fitted: qr,a,n
  • Second Material:
    • qr=0
    • qs=1
    • a=1e-20
    • n=1.001
    • Ks=0.003
    • l= 0.5
Water Flow - Boundary Conditions
  • Upper Boundary Condition: Constant Flux
  • Lower Boundary Condition: Constant Pressure Head
Water Flow - Constant BC
  • Upper Boundary Flux: 0
Data for Inverse Solution
0.017 -0.07860 0 2 1
0.033 -0.16160 0 2 1
0.05 -0.20970 0 2 1
0.167 -0.34080 0 2 1
0.5 -0.44560 0 2 1
1.033 -0.4980 0 2 1
2.75 -0.56140 0 2 1
5.417 -0.59370 0 2 1
100 -0.68240 0 2 1
-15000 0.157 5 1 1
 
Soil Profile - Graphical Editor
  • Menu: Options -> Grid - Height: 0.05
  • Menu: Condition -> Profile Discretization
  • Button "Number": 50
  • Button "Insert Fixed" at 3.95 cm
  • Button "Density": deselect "Use upper", upper density =0.1 at 3.95 cm
  • Menu: Condition -> Initial Condition -> Pressure Head
  • Button "Edit condition"
  • Select entire profile:
    • Top value=-2
    • Bottom value=2.52
    • Deselect "Use top value for both"
  • Lowest node = -1000 cm
  • Menu: Condition -> Material Distribution
  • Button "Edit condition"
  • Select the ceramic plate and specify "Material Index"=2
  • Ditto for "subregions"
  • Observation Points?
Soil Profile - Summary
Execute HYDRUS
OUTPUT:
Water Flow - Boundary Fluxes and Heads
  • Cumulative Bottom Flux
Soil Hydraulic Properties
Inverse Solution Information