Water Movement due to Water Consumption Process in Artificial Bed Soil

Utilization studies of revegetation in steep slope using artificial bed soil with continuous fibers

Abstract

Numerical simulations using finite element method for water movement due to water consumption in artificial bed soil which is sprayed on steep slope were conducted. Practicability of both predicting water movement and application to steep slope were also discussed comparing numerical results with measured values from field experiment. These comparisons indicate that the proposed numerical simulation is able to utilize highly individual data such as meteorological factor, and average relative error of volumetric water content between numerical result and measured values were with in 14% at vegetated field and 9% at bare field.