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    This document summarizes the use of HYDRUS software to model water flow through a complex multi-layer soil system underneath a lined reservoir with a small leak. The model considers 24 soil layers with different properties below a reservoir with a 0.52 cm leak at 3 m pressure. It simulates water flow over 50 years, showing the development of perched water layers above less permeable soils. The results demonstrate how heterogeneous soils and both saturated and unsaturated conditions make these problems numerically complex and time-consuming to simulate.

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    This document summarizes the use of HYDRUS software to model water flow through a complex multi-layer soil system underneath a lined reservoir with a small leak. The model considers 24 soil layers with different properties below a reservoir with a 0.52 cm leak at 3 m pressure. It simulates water flow over 50 years, showing the development of perched water layers above less permeable soils. The results demonstrate how heterogeneous soils and both saturated and unsaturated conditions make these problems numerically complex and time-consuming to simulate.

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    This document summarizes the use of HYDRUS software to model water flow through a complex multi-layer soil system underneath a lined reservoir with a small leak. The model considers 24 soil layers with different properties below a reservoir with a 0.52 cm leak at 3 m pressure. It simulates water flow over 50 years, showing the development of perched water layers above less permeable soils. The results demonstrate how heterogeneous soils and both saturated and unsaturated conditions make these problems numerically complex and time-consuming to simulate.

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    This document summarizes the use of HYDRUS software to model water flow through a complex multi-layer soil system underneath a lined reservoir with a small leak. The model considers 24 soil layers with different properties below a reservoir with a 0.52 cm leak at 3 m pressure. It simulates water flow over 50 years, showing the development of perched water layers above less permeable soils. The results demonstrate how heterogeneous soils and both saturated and unsaturated conditions make these problems numerically complex and time-consuming to simulate.

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    Evaluation of water leakage from a lined reservoir

    Jirka Simunek

    This example demonstrates the use of HYDRUS to evaluate water movement in a complex
    multilayer (24 layers of 12 different soil materials) system under a lined reservoir. It is assumed
    that there is a very little break in the lining of a radius of 0.52 cm and that the pressure head here
    is 3 m. Water flows through this opening into the soil profile that has the initial pressure head of
    –5 m. The water table is at a depth of 90 m. The transport domain is 30 * 90 m (horizontal *
    vertical) and is discretized using regular FE mesh. A constant pressure head (300 cm)
    representing the leak is specified at a left upper corner to a very small part of the boundary of
    0.52 cm. A constant pressure head (0 cm) is also used at the bottom to represent ground water.

    Figure 1. Material distribution in the transport domain.

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    Table 1. Soil hydraulic parameters used in simulations.

    Mat θr θs α n Ks l
    [cm ] -1
    [cm d-1]
    1 0.045 0.43 0.145 2.68 103.68 0.5
    2 0.1 0.39 0.059 1.48 33.3504 0.5
    3 0.057 0.41 0.124 2.28 34.2144 0.5
    4 0.095 0.41 0.019 1.31 1.0368 0.5
    5 0.065 0.41 0.075 1.89 106.272 0.5
    6 0.1 0.39 0.059 1.48 28.8576 0.5
    7 0.057 0.41 0.124 2.28 349.92 0.5
    8 0.095 0.41 0.019 1.31 0.091584 0.5
    9 0.067 0.45 0.02 1.41 10.8 0.5
    10 0.1 0.39 0.059 1.48 0.416448 0.5
    11 0.095 0.41 0.019 1.31 2.73888 0.5
    12 0.1 0.39 0.059 1.48 17.28 0.5

    The problem is numerically rather complex, since due to a sequence of different layers with
    different saturated hydraulic conductivities, perched water layers develop above less permeable
    soil layers. Such cases that involve both saturated and unsaturated domains are often numerically
    unstable and require relatively small time steps. Notice that the computational time for this
    problem is over 1 day on a 3GHz PC.

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    Figure 2. Pressure head profiles after 5, 10, 25, and 50 years for the leak of 11.28 mm diameter.

    Pressure H ead, Time = 18250 days W ater C ontent, Time = 18250 days

    100 0.45

    0.40
    50 0.35

    0.30
    0 0.25

    0.20

    -50 0.15

    0.10

    -100 0.05
    0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
    Dep th [cm] Dep th [cm]

    Figure 3. Pressure heads and water contents along the vertical axis. Figure shows dramatically
    different water contents in different soil horizons, as well as two perched water layers at a depth
    of about 10 and 25 m.

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