- Identification: GA526/08/1016 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
- Duration: 2008 - 2010
- Principal investigator: Ing. Miroslav Tesař CSc.
- Co-investigator: RNDr. Pražák – ÚT AV ČR, RNDr. Bíl – PřFa UP Olomouc, Prof. Vogel – FSv ČVUT Praha
Subject of research
The main goal of the project is to identify conditions inducing the formation of preferential flow path in a porous medium, and to find the threshold height of a fluid body which induces the instability of the fluid distribution in the porous structure. Influence of the following parameters will be tested: effective pore diameter, contact angle between liquid, solid and gas phases, intensity of fluid infiltration, the volume of fluid in a porous material. Experimental methods: visualization of the fluidtransfer in a porous medium, measurement of free drainage from a porous medium, the hydrograph separation in two small watersheds under monitored precipitation, tensiometric pressures and soil water content. Computer simulation of fluid flow in a porous medium will be performed on three levels - macroscopic Richards equation based on continuum mechanics approach, microscopic - lattice-gas automata, and mesoscopic - based on network approaches (percolation theory).
