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Testing the Pore-Solid Fractal Model for the Soil Water Retention Function

^a F. Wang, State Key Lab. of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan 430072, China
^b Dep. of Renewable Resources, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3354, USA

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Measured soil water retention data (circles), fitted curve of Eq. [5] (solid line), and calculated curve of Eq. [6] (dash line) for (a) a sand soil with ß/s > 1 and (b) a clay soil with ß/s < 1.

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Comparison of measured water retention data (circles) of a silty loam and fitted curves with Eq. [5] (solid line) and with Eq. [6] (dash line).

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Comparison of measured water retention data (circles) of a silty clay loam soil and fitted curves with Eq. [5] (solid line) and with Eq. [6] (dash line).

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. Measured soil water retention data (circles) of a sand soil and fitted curves with Eq. [5] (s = 0.39, ß = 0.53) (solid line) and Eq. [7] (setting r = 0) (dash line).

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Fig. 5. Comparison of measured water retention data (circles) of a loam soil and fitted curves with Eq. [5] (solid line) and with Eq. [8] (dash line).

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Fig. 6. Measured water retention data (circles), fitted curve with Eq. [5] (solid line), and calculated curve with D from Eq. [4] (dash line) for (a) a sandy loam soil and (b) a sandy clay loam soil.