Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5694
Title: Determination of soil hydraulic conductivity with the lattice Boltzmann method and soil thin-section technique
Contributor(s): Zhang, Xiaoxian (author); Deeks, Lynda K (author); Bengough, A Glyn (author); Crawford, John W (author); Young, Iain  (author)
Publication Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.08.039
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5694
Abstract: A pore-scale modelling of soil hydraulic conductivity using the lattice Boltzmann equation method and thin-section technique is presented in this paper. Two-dimensional thin sections taken from soil samples were used to measure soil pore geometry, and three-dimensional soil structures were then reconstructed based on the thin-section measurements and an assumption that the soil structure can be fully characterised by its porosity and variogram. The hydraulic conductivity of the reconstructed three-dimensional soil structures was calculated from a lattice Boltzmann simulation of water flow in the structures, in which the water-solid interface was treated as a non-slip boundary (zero-velocity boundary) and solved by the bounce-back method. To improve the accuracy of the bounce-back method, the particle distribution functions were located at the centre of the cube that was fully occupied either by water or by solid. The simulated hydraulic conductivity was compared with measured hydraulic conductivity and the results showed good agreement. We also analysed the probability distribution of the simulated water velocity and the results indicated that the transverse velocity components had a non-Gaussian symmetric distribution, while the longitudinal velocity component had a skewed forward distribution. Both distributions had a marked peak for velocity close to zero, indicating a significant portion of stagnant water.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Hydrology, v.306, p. 59-70
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 0022-1694
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050305 Soil Physics
060208 Terrestrial Ecology
050303 Soil Biology
050399 Soil Sciences not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 961402 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://hdl.handle.net/10373/156
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