Extensive research has been carried out in both field and laboratory to explain water and solute movement under both saturated and unsaturated conditions. The importance of such work is obvious, since any attempt at exploring land reclamation by leaching or nutrient movement in plant feeding (to name only two) is subject to interpretations and theories of moisture flow.
Water flow through soil during reclamation by leaching can be termed miscible displacement since soil water and leaching water do not have a distinct fluid-fluid interface and will physically mix. It is probable that miscible displacement investigations can contribute to an understanding of time-ion concentration relationships in land drainage.
Much work is and has been done in the laboratory on moisture flow with particular reference to miscible displacement theories. This project investigates a portion of the overall miscible displacement phenomena in the field under conditions which would exist in practice.
Specifically, an attempt is made to determine the relative importance of hydrodynamic dispersion and diffusion in a tile drained soil over a relatively impermeable clay using chloride as a tracer.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-4671 |
| Date | 01 May 1963 |
| Creators | McFadden Sadler, Lloyd Dowley |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Source Sets | Utah State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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