Hydrus-2D Book

Hydrus-2D Book

Last Modification: 1.1.2008

Dear HYDRUS users,

The HYDRUS book advertised below is currently out of print and only a PDF version of it is available directly from David Rassam. Please note that this book was written for the earlier version of Hydrus-2D and has not yet been updated for HYDRUS (2D/3D). Thus, although the book contains many examples (that can be converted to the new HYDRUS (2D/3D) environment) that may be useful in guiding your work with our software packages, there were many new developments and improvements in HYDRUS (2D/3D) and thus not all recommendations and examples described in the book are still applicable. We will try to work with David on updating the book for the new HYDRUS environment, but this effort is not under our control and thus we can not guarantee any date at present.

We would like to inform you that we are currently involved in writing the textbook for CRC Press that is due 4/15/2009:

Radcliffe, D., and J. Šimůnek, Introduction to Soil Physics with HYDRUS: Modeling and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN-10: 142007380X, ISBN-13: 9781420073805, due 4/15/2009.

Thanks for your interest in HYDRUS,

The HYDRUS team  

Created: February 2004

Dear HYDRUS users

We are pleased to announce the release of the new Hydrus-2D book. This 250-page document will answer all your HYDRUS queries, especially those that are neither addressed in the Technical Manual nor in the on-line Help. It is accompanied by a CD that includes over 100 examples.

The book is structured into 8 major parts:

1. Introductory tutorial examples
2. A detailed journey through HYDRUS windows.
3. Simulating plant water uptake.
4. Includes 13 advanced examples that cover soil science and engineering applications.
5. A comprehensive section on inverse parameter estimation.
6. Trouble shooting helps achieve trouble-free simulations.
7. Appendixes cover theoretical background and tutorial examples on solute transport.
8. Windows index.

You can easily find your way through this document by accessing two types of indexes; a traditional alphabetical index, and a windows-index that describes over 90 HYDRUS windows. The indexes direct you to relevant pages as well as related examples.

Although this document is aimed at Hydrus-2D users, Hydrus-1D users may also benefit from information on boundary conditions and their meaning, handling output files, simulations on root water uptake, inverse modelling (examples on root water uptake and inverse work are basically 1-D runs set in a 2-D environment), trouble shooting, and generic theoretical background information. The example projects and their results can be viewed on a demo-version of Hydrus-2D, which is freely available on the distribution CD and downloadable from the web.

Please find the time to read the book review by John Selker (Selker, J., Book Review, Modelling Variably Saturated Flow with HYDRUS-2D, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 725-725, 2004.).

THANK YOU The HYDRUS-Manual Team  

Ordering

Price: US$80 (excludes postage & handling)

For ORDERS contact:	or directly:
Email: hydrus@optusnet.com.au Fax: 61 7 3376 7454	David Rassam CSIRO Land and Water 120 Meiers Road Indooroopilly, QLD 4068 Australia Tel: 07 3214 2724; 0400 877 676 Fax 07 3214 2855 Email: david.rassam@csiro.au

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