Abstract
Accurately predicting the rainfall-runoff process is of vital importance for water quality models as well as for correct design of various types of hydraulic structures. This article presents a method of describing the cumulative infiltration process as an explicit function of time using an approximation to the modified Green-Ampt equation given by Mein and Larson (1971). The resulting equation is helpful in predicting cumulative infiltration and therefore infiltration capacity for computer simulation models. The proposed method takes about 50% less time than the usual iterative technique for the same degree of accuracy. The maximum error due to approximation was 1% and generally the error was much less, making this solution acceptable for most practical problems.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.27633
Repository Citation
Srivastava, Puneet; Costello, Thomas A.; and Edwards, Dwayne R., "A Direct, Approximate Solution to the Modified Green-Ampt Infiltration Equation" (1996). Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications. 66.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/bae_facpub/66
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Transactions of the ASAE, v. 39, issue 4, p. 1411-1413.
© 1996 American Society of Agricultural Engineers
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