Program

Day 1

9:00 Registration
9:30 Start Workshop
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee/Tea Break

There is no strict time schedule for the individual lectures, because the length of the lectures is adapted to the interests of the participants. The sequence of the lectures is given below.

Lecture 1: Conceptual and mathematical description of variably-saturated water flow and solute transport processes, root-water uptake, nonequilibrium transport, decay chains, initial conditions, boundary conditions;

Lecture 2: Analytical modeling of solute transport in the subsurface, equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport models, parameter estimation.

Computer session 1: Modeling subsurface solute transport using the STANMOD code; direct and inverse applications.

Lecture 3: Review of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media; measurement, description, parameter estimation.

Computer session 2: Analyzing/estimating hydraulic properties with the RETC and Rosetta codes.

Lecture 4: Review of numerical methods for solving the variably-saturated water flow and solute transport equations; Application of finite element method to 1D flow and transport; The HYDRUS-1D software package - model structure and examples.

Computer session 3: Application of HYDRUS-1D to simple one-dimensional problems.

Lecture 5: Inverse modeling; application of HYDRUS-1D to laboratory and field experiments.

Computer session 4: Advanced one-dimensional forward and inverse problems with HYDRUS-1D.

Day 2

9:00 Start Workshop
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee/Tea Break
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee/Tea Break

There is no strict time schedule for the individual lectures, because the length of the lectures is adapted to the interests of the participants. The sequence of the lectures is given below.

Lecture 6: Application of finite element method to 2D variably-saturated water flow and solute transport; The HYDRUS-2D software package - model structure, examples; Pre-and post-processing with HYDRUS-2D using the finite element mesh generator.

Computer session 5: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple one-dimensional problem.

Computer session 6: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple two-dimensional problem.

Computer session 7: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem A.

Computer session 8: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem B.

General session: Other applications; discussion