Caracterização hidrodinâmica e hidrodispersiva de um latossolo amarelo na microrregião do brejo Paraibano

Abstract

To model the water flow and solute transport in soils, hydrodynamic and hydrodispersive parameters are required as input data in the mathematical models. The axisymmetric infiltration experiment using a single-ring infiltrometer with a conservative tracer (KCl) is a simple and efficient method for the determination of these parameters in the field. The objective of this study was to characterize hydrodynamic and hydrodispersive parameters of some soils in a marshy region, in Areia-PB, in the field, based on single-ring infiltration tests. The experiments were conducted in an area with common bean, in a 50 x 50 m grid. Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and sorptivity (S) were estimated by analysis of three- dimensional axisymmetric infiltration for short and long periods. The inert solute (Cl-) was used to calculate the mobile water fraction Φ, by measuring solute concentration in the 0-15 cm layer at the end of the infiltration experiment. A numerical model of solute transfer based on the concept of convection-dispersion (CD) was used to determine the transport parameters (D and R). Singlering infiltrometry proved to be a simple and efficient method to obtain the hydrodynamic and hydrodispersive parameters. A good agreement was observed between measured and calculated values (v, D and R) with the model CD, based on the coefficients of determination (r2).