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Modeling and Simulation for Agricultural WaterManagement<\/p>\n
Prerequsites: AG21002 Modeling and Simulation: Definition and purpose of modeling, modeling<\/p>\n
terminology, modeling versus simulation, types of models, modeling<\/p>\n
protocol, continuum approach to modeling porous media.<\/p>\n
Application of Modeling Techniques to Agricultural Water Management:<\/p>\n
Finite-difference method (FDM), and finite-element method (FEM), numerical<\/p>\n
errors, validity of numerical solutions.<\/p>\n
Modeling Unsaturated Flow: Soil water potential, capillarity, soil moisture<\/p>\n
characteristics and hydraulic conductivity curves, soil-water flow, effective<\/p>\n
permeability, motion and mass balance equations, initial and boundary<\/p>\n
conditions, complete mathematical model of unsaturated flow, on-farm<\/p>\n
water balance modeling.<\/p>\n
Water Uptake by Plant Roots: Mathematical description of water uptake by<\/p>\n
potential transpiration.<\/p>\n
Numerical Approximation of Flow in Soil-Root Systems: Initial and boundary<\/p>\n
conditions, finite difference approximation, model development, calibration<\/p>\n
and verification, case studies.<\/p>\n
Modeling of Crop Production: Mathematical description of crop growth, water<\/p>\n
versus actual production, calculation of potential production, case studies.<\/p>\n
Modeling Saturated Flow:\u00a0 Aquifer storativity, effective stress, fundamental<\/p>\n
mass balance equation, initial and boundary conditions, complete<\/p>\n
mathematical models of flow in confined, phreatic and leaky aquifers, model<\/p>\n
execution and calibration process, case studies.<\/p>\n
Modeling and Simulation of Irrigation Canal Systems: Commonly used<\/p>\n
modeling techniques, overview of popular software packages for canal flow<\/p>\n
simulation.<\/p>\n
Water Quality Prediction and Simulation: Fundamentals of water quality<\/p>\n
modeling, types of water quality models, model development, calibration<\/p>\n
and verification, NPS models, case studies.<\/p>\n
Modeling Subsurface Contamination: Classification of contaminants,<\/p>\n
hydrodynamic dispersion in saturated and unsaturated domains, advective,<\/p>\n
dispersive and diffusive fluxes, balance equation for a contaminant, initial<\/p>\n
and boundary conditions, source and sink terms, complete statement of<\/p>\n
contaminant model, scale effects and macrodispersion, salient case studies.<\/p>\n
Rational Use of Models: Reliability and rational use of models for planning<\/p>\n
and management of water resources systems, salient software packages for<\/p>\n
agricultural water management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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