Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer Between Bare Soil and Atmosphere

Abstract

A physically based mass and heat transfer model is presented and the theoretical results were compared with the experimental data measured under field conditions. The validity of a set of mass and heat balance equations as well as numerical schemes was discussed through sensibility analyses. In order to predict the evaporation from a bare soil, the model and simulation technique were applied to some practical data collected from a test site in southern France.