Training course on simulating soil water movement and transport using the biogeochemical transport model HP1

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Programme

Day 1

• Background on variably-saturated water flow and solute transport processes
• Review of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media
• Introduction to HYDRUS-1D software package
• Application of HYDRUS-1D to simple onedimensional problems
• Application of HYDRUS-1D to a transient water flow and solute transport problem
• Advanced one-dimensional forward and inverse problems with HYDRUS-1D

Day 2

• Application of HYDRUS (2D/3D) to simple one- and two dimensional problems
• Application of HYDRUS (2D/3D) to a complex two-dimensional problems
• New developments in the HYDRUS-software

Day 3

• Principles of biogeochemical equilibrium modelling
• PHREEQC-2: Introduction, Database
• PHREEQC-2: Definition of the initial solution
• PHREEQC-2: Examples of reaction path modelling

Day 4

• Reactive transport in the vadose zone: examples and approach in HP1
• First example with HP1
• Surface-related processes
• Exchange processes in PHREEQC-2 and HP1

Day 5

• Surface complexation processes in PHREEQC-2 and HP1
• Kinetic reaction networks
• Abiotic and biotic kinetics in PHREEQC-2 and HP1