Course outline: 

• Conceptual and mathematical description of variably-saturated water flow and solute transport processes, root-water uptake, initial conditions, boundary conditions.
• The HYDRUS-1D software for simulating one-dimensional variably-saturated water flow, Root water uptake and solute transport.
• Review of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media; measurement, description, parameter estimation. RETC and Rosetta codes.
• Application of HYDRUS-1D to a transient water flow and solute transport in a layered soil profile.
• Inverse modeling; application of HYDRUS to laboratory and field experiments.
• Application of HYDRUS (2D/3D) to a simple two-dimensional problem.