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date: 09 February 2025

The Family of HYDRUS Modelslocked

The Family of HYDRUS Modelslocked

  • Jiří Šimůnek, Jiří ŠimůnekUniversity of California, Riverside Department of Environmental Sciences Riverside, California 92521-9800 United States
  • Giuseppe Brunetti, Giuseppe BrunettiUniversity of Calabria Department of Civil Engineering Arcavacata di Rende, Calabria Italy
  • Martinus Th. van GenuchtenMartinus Th. van GenuchtenFederal University of Rio de Janeiro Department of Nuclear Engineering Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil Utrecht University Department of Earth Sciences Netherlands
  • , and Miroslav ŠejnaMiroslav ŠejnaPC-Progress, Ltd - Anglická 28 Prague Czech Republic

Summary

HYDRUS is a Windows-based modeling software package that can be used to analyze water flow and heat and solute transport in variably saturated porous media (e.g., soils or the vadose zone). The HYDRUS software includes an interactive graphics-based interface for data preprocessing, soil profile discretization, and graphic presentation of the results. Historically, HYDRUS consisted of two independent software packages. While HYDRUS-1D simulated flow and transport processes in one dimension and was a public domain software, HYDRUS (2D/3D; and earlier HYDRUS-2D) extended the simulation capabilities to the second and third dimensions and was distributed commercially. These two previously independent software packages were merged in 2023 into a single software package called HYDRUS.

The capabilities of the HYDRUS software packages have been significantly expanded by various standard and nonstandard specialized add-on modules. The standard add-on modules are fully incorporated and supported by the HYDRUS graphical user-friendly interfaces (GUIs) and documented in detail in the technical and user manuals. This is not the case for several additional nonstandard modules, which require additional work outside the GUI. A commonality of all HYDRUS add-on modules is that they simulate variably saturated water flow and heat and solute transport in porous media. The specialized add-on modules provide additional capabilities, such as considering general reactive transport (in the HPx models) or reactive transport with specific chemistry (notably the Wetland and UNSATCHEM modules). Other modules provide additional flow and/or transport modeling processes, such as to account for preferential flow (the DualPerm module), colloid-facilitated solute transport (the C-Ride module), or the transport of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS; the PFAS module) or fumigant (the Fumigant module) compounds.

The HYDRUS models are among the most widely used numerical models for simulating processes in the subsurface. There are many thousands of HYDRUS users worldwide, with many applications (also several thousand) appearing in peer-reviewed international literature and many technical reports.

Subjects

  • Environments
  • Environmental Processes and Systems
  • Agriculture and the Environment

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