The determination of reasonable number of soil infiltration test in farmland

¹ Department of Water Conservancy Engineering, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384
² Tianjin Water - Saving Irrigation Technology and Equipment School - Enterprise Innovation Laboratory, Tianjin 300384

^* Corresponding Author’s E-mail: wyrf@163.com

Abstract

At the experimental base of Tianjin Agricultural University, the infiltration process of water was measured by double - ring infiltration instrument at six points. Horton，Philip and Kostiakov-lewis (K-l) infiltration models were fitted with the infiltration data measured and the parameters were correspondingly obtained. Six sets of parameters of the corresponding infiltration model were obtained, and six sets of parameters were used for statistical analysis. The reasonable number of points of the corresponding model was obtained. Then, the statistical analysis of the cumulative infiltration amount was used to obtain the variation of the number of reasonable points in the three models with time. The results show that the imitative effect of accumulative infiltration water and time in K-l model is the best, and the curve of reasonable test points determined by K-l model with time is located under the other two models; The reasonable number of points determined by the parameter K in the K-l model is the least and most reasonable. In view of this, the number of reasonable points was determined by using the parameter K in the K-l model.