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In this paper, we first propose a coupled numerical model of unsaturated flow in soils and plant root water uptake. The Richards equation and different formulations are used in the developed numerical model to describe infiltration in root…
In this study, we focus on the modelling of infiltration process in porous media. We use the meshless techniques for efficiently solving the Richards equation which describes unsaturated water flow through soils. The design of approximate…
We develop a new approach to solve the nonlinear Richards equation based on the Kirchhoff transformation and localized radial basis function (LRBF) techniques. Our aim is to reduce the nonlinearity of the governing equation and apply LRBF…
The Richards equation, a nonlinear elliptic parabolic equation, is widely used to model infiltration in porous media. We develop a finite element method for solving the Richards equation by introducing a new bounded auxiliary variable to…
Richards equation is often used to represent two-phase fluid flow in an unsaturated porous medium when one phase is much heavier and more viscous than the other. However, it cannot describe the fully saturated flow for some capillary…
The water uptake by roots of plants is examined for an ideal situation, with an approximation that resembles plants growing in pots, meaning that the total soil volume is fixed. We propose a coupled water uptake-root growth model. A…
In this study, a novel semi-implicit second-order temporal scheme combined with the finite element method for space discretization is proposed to solve the coupled system of infiltration and solute transport in unsaturated porous media. The…
The spatiotemporal water flow dynamics in unsaturated soils can generally be modeled by the Richards equation. To overcome the computational challenges associated with solving this highly nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE), we…
We present a numerical scheme for the solution of nonlinear mixed-dimensional PDEs describing coupled processes in embedded tubular network system in exchange with a bulk domain. Such problems arise in various biological and technical…
Simulating infiltration in porous media using Richards' equation remains computationally challenging due to its parabolic structure and nonlinear coefficients. While a wide range of numerical methods for differential equations have been…
Meshless solution to differential equations using radial basis functions (RBF) is an alternative to grid based methods commonly used. Since the meshless method does not need an underlying connectivity in the form of control volumes or…
In this paper we consider the multiscale modelling of water transport in vegetated soil. In the microscopic model we distinguish between subdomains of soil and plant tissue, and use the Richards equation to model the water transport through…
A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…
We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…
The goal of this study is to propose an efficient numerical model for the predictions of capillary adsorption phenomena in a porous material. The Scharfetter-Gummel numerical scheme is proposed to solve an advection-diffusion equation with…
Root systems can influence the dynamics of evapotranspiration of water out of a porous medium. The coupling of evapotranspiration remains a key aspect affecting overall root behavior. Predicting the evapotranspiration curve in the presence…
The estimation of unknown parameters in nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) offers valuable insights across a wide range of scientific domains. In this work, we focus on estimating plant root parameters in the Richards equation,…
We present a flexible discretization technique for computational models of thin tubular networks embedded in a bulk domain, for example a porous medium. These systems occur in the simulation of fluid flow in vascularized biological tissue,…
Numerical simulations are a valuable research and layout tool for fluid flow problems, yet repeated evaluations of parametrized problems, necessary to solve optimization problems, can be very costly. One option to speed up this process is…
The Richards equation is commonly used to model the flow of water and air through soil, and it serves as a gateway equation for multiphase flows through porous media. It is a nonlinear advection-reaction-diffusion equation that exhibits…