Numerical simulation of solute transports in two dimensional virtual soil
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    Virtual soils, rich in macropore, but different in level, were constructed with the aid of the Voronoi tesselation algorithm on two dimensional lattices and transport behaviors of solute particles therein numerically simulated using random walk models. It was found that the solute diffusion was anomalous and its mean square of displacement was positively correlated with time, being <r2(t)>∝tK. Values of K depended on the types of soils and the types of random walk models. With biased random walk models, the values increased with the time, which means the particles diffused faster with the time went on. The first passage time of solute transport satisfied the logarithmic normal distribution. Non-fick effect of the diffusion was obvious with the continuous time random walk theory. And it was found that soils different in por structure would have different corresponding fitting parameters with the random walk models, that is to say, they also affected the transport behaviors of solute particles. The findings of the study are found to be helpful to researchers in understanding and predicting behaviors of water and solutes in macroporous soil, and hence in helping protect the underground water environment.

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tao yaqi, Jiang Xin, Bian Yongrong, Yang Xinglun, Wang Fang. Numerical simulation of solute transports in two dimensional virtual soil[J]. Acta Pedologica Sinica,2009,46(6):991-997.

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  • Received:January 15,2009
  • Revised:May 15,2009
  • Adopted:May 19,2009
  • Online: December 18,2009
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