Field evaluation of various mathematical models for furrow and border irrigation systems

Hamed Ebrahimian and Abdolmajid Liaghat
Additional contact information
Hamed Ebrahimian: Deptartment of Irrigation and Reclamation Engineering., University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Abdolmajid Liaghat: Deptartment of Irrigation and Reclamation Engineering., University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Soil and Water Research, 2011, vol. 6, issue 2, 91-101

Abstract: In this study, three mathematical models in the SIRMOD package including the hydrodynamic (HD), zero inertia (ZI), and kinematic wave (KW) models were tested using the data from several field experiments for both border and furrow irrigation systems. Five data sets for borders and seven data sets for furrows were used in this assessment. The results indicated that the performance of all models was satisfactory for the prediction of the advance and recession times. There was no difference in the prediction of the advance and recession times and infiltrated and runoff volumes between the hydrodynamic and zero-inertia approaches of the SIRMOD software. The HD, ZI, and KW models predicted the recession times better than the advance times for both the experimental borders and furrows. The predicted advance and recession times were estimated by these models more accurately than the infiltrated and runoff volumes. Also the accuracy of these models for the prediction of the advance and recession times was better for the experimental furrows in comparison with the experimental borders.

Keywords: border irrigation; furrow irrigation; mathematical models; SIRMOD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://swr.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/34/2010-SWR.html (text/html)
http://swr.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/34/2010-SWR.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:caa:jnlswr:v:6:y:2011:i:2:id:34-2010-swr

DOI: 10.17221/34/2010-SWR

Access Statistics for this article

Soil and Water Research is currently edited by Ing. Markéta Knížková, (Executive Editor)

More articles in Soil and Water Research from Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().