Modeling flow and transport processes at the local scale

Much progress has been made during the past several decades in attempts to more realistically simulate variably-saturated water flow and solute transport in the subsurface. A large number of conceptual models are now available to predict flow and transport in the vadose zone. In this paper we highlight recent advances in modeling at especially the local scale. Improved understanding of underlying processes, continued advances in numerical methods, and the introduction of increasingly powerful computers now permit comprehensive simulations of the most important physical, chemical and biological processes operative in the unsaturated zone. Examples include models for mass/energy transport in the soil-plant atmosphere continuum, multicomponent major ion chemistry, and multifluid flow. While the problem of preferential flow remains a challenge, several useful approaches have recently become available to study and model preferential flow in structured media. Increasingly accurate indirect methods, including pedotransfer functions, are now also available for estimating the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from more readily available or easily measured data. A need still exists for more user-friendly software to enable more effective application of models to a variety of flow and transport problems in research and

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