Title: Surface irrigation simulation models: a review

Authors: Mohammad Valipour; Mohammad Ali Gholami Sefidkouhi; Saeid Eslamian

Addresses: Young Researchers and Elite Club, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran ' Department of Water Engineering, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran ' Department of Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 8145683111, Iran

Abstract: This paper reviews the literature and results of more than one hundred published articles in scientific journals with respect to simulation of surface irrigation. The results showed that 53.4% of the simulations belong to furrow systems. It is 35.9% for border systems and 10.7% for basin irrigation. However, satisfactory simulations were 70.3%, 63.6%, and 54.5% for border, basin, and furrow systems, respectively. The priority of irrigation methods to simulate using hydrodynamic (HD) and other models is border, basin, and furrow irrigation. It is border, furrow, and basin for kinematic wave (KW) and volume balance (VB) models. Finally, this priority is basin, border, and furrow for zero inertia (ZI) model. Meanwhile, the models estimated advance and infiltration phases better than recession and runoff phases during an irrigation event.

Keywords: surface irrigation simulation; surface irrigation modelling; Saint-Venant; simplification; literature review; hydrodynamics; furrow systems; border systems; basin irrigation; kinematic wave; volume balance; zero inertia; advance phase; infiltration phase; recession phase; runoff phase.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHST.2015.069279

International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2015 Vol.5 No.1, pp.51 - 70

Received: 13 Oct 2014
Accepted: 15 Dec 2014

Published online: 07 May 2015 *

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