Modelling water infiltration into macroporous hill slopes using special boundary conditions

Abstract

The formulation of suitable boundary conditions is a very crucial task when modeling water infiltration into macroporous hill slopes. The processes of water infiltration and exfiltration vary in space and time and depend on the flow on the surface as well as in the subsurface. In this contribution we have purposed special system process dependent boundary conditions can be formulated for a two-phase dual-permeability model to simulate infiltration and exfiltration processes. The presented formulation analyses the saturation conditions of the dual-permeability model (e.g. saturation) at the boundary nodes and adopts the boundary conditions depending on the processes at the soil surface such as rainfall intensity. Using a simplified macroporous hill slope and a heavy rainfall event we demonstrate the functionality of our formulation

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