1996
DOI: 10.1029/96wr00069
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Parameter Equivalence for the Brooks‐Corey and Van Genuchten Soil Characteristics: Preserving the Effective Capillary Drive

Abstract: This paper provides a simple way to convert Brooks‐Corey (BC) parameters to van Genuchten (vG) parameters and vice versa, for use primarily in situations where saturated conditions are likely to be encountered. Essential in this conversion is the preservation of the maximum value of a physical characteristic, the “effective capillary drive” HcM [Morel‐Seytoux and Khanji, 1974], defined with a good approximation for a soil water and air system as HcM = ∫0∞ krw dhc, where krw is relative permeability (or conduct… Show more

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“…where h wf is the wetting front potential, which is also referred to as the effective capillary drive [Morel-Seytoux et al, 1996], capillary pull, or macroscopic capillary length [White and Sully, 1987]. The correction factor ' accounts for deviations from a sharp wetting front and/or viscous damping effects.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…where h wf is the wetting front potential, which is also referred to as the effective capillary drive [Morel-Seytoux et al, 1996], capillary pull, or macroscopic capillary length [White and Sully, 1987]. The correction factor ' accounts for deviations from a sharp wetting front and/or viscous damping effects.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, estimates of initial soil moisture and the soil's wetting front potential are needed for this approach. Solutions exist to quantify wetting front potential in dry soils (when  0 ¼ 0) [Rawls et al, 1992;Morel-Seytoux et al, 1996], given that the parameters of a water retention function are known. For instance, Morel-Seytoux et al [1996] approximated the wetting front potential of a dry soil as…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is no guarantee that in combination with theoretical relative permeabilities the various curve-fitting approaches (B-C, vG, R-N, or the proposed approach), even when based on the original data, will automatically provide the same value for the "capillary drive" [Morel-Seytoux et al, 1996]. For this reason a fundamental constraint for the development of an equivalence is that the value of the capillary drive be preserved in the process.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A különféle függvények illesztési paraméterei egymásba átszámítható-ak (pl. CARSEL & PARISH, 1988;MOREL-SEYTOUX et al, 1996;ASSOULINE, 2006;GHEZZEHEI et al, 2007). RAWLS és BRAKENSIEK (1985), illetve CARSEL és PARISH (1988) a VG és BC függvényparaméterek javasolt átlagértékeit tartalmazó tábláza-tokat készítettek a mért víztartó-és vízvezető-képesség adatok statisztikai elemzé-sével.…”
Section: Egymódusú Parametrikus Függvényekunclassified