HYDRUS Reviews
Available HYDRUS reviews:
- Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D, Computer Spotlights in Ground Water, December 2010
- Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D, Southwest Hydrology, February 2007
- Review of Hydrus-2D, Southwest Hydrology, December 2004
- Review of Hydrus-1D, Southwest Hydrology, December 2004
- Review of the Hydrus-2D Book, Vadose Zone Journal, May 2004
- Intercode comparisons for simulating water balance of surficial sediments in semiarid regions, Water Resources Research, 2002
- Review of Hydrus-2D, Computer Spotlights in Ground Water, November 2000
- A bibliometric and visual analysis of contaminant transport modeling in the groundwater system, 2022
- A Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D applications in tree crops under drip irrigation
Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D, December 2010
Yu, Ch., and Ch. Zheng, HYDRUS: Software for Flow and Transport Modeling in Variably Saturated Media, Software Spotlight, Ground Water, 48(6), 787-791, 2010.
Quotations from the review:
- Overall, the two reviewers are favorably impressed by HYDRUS as a versatile modeling platform with a long, proven track record and a well-designed GUI for flow and transport under variably saturated conditions.
- HYDRUS would be a good choice for any researchers or environmental engineers interested in subsurface flow, transport, and remediation where variably saturated conditions must be considered.
- HYDRUS appears to be a versatile modeling system with a well-designed GUI for water flow, solute, and heat transport simulation in variably saturated media.
- The reviewers especially like several features available in the GUI.
- The overall GUI design is intuitive and various options are arranged logically into groups corresponding with model construction steps.
- Reviewers also thought that the output module is impressive for its intuitive representation by animations and multiple types of graphics.
- The “Sections” tool provides a convenient way to access and edit a group of elements simultaneously.
- The reviewers also very much liked the video tutorial course available on the software vendor’s website. This course allows users to learn about almost all of the options available to HYDRUS.
- Another useful and convenient feature of HYDRUS is the integrated inverse modeling capability that can be used to optimize input parameters during model calibration.
The reviewers ranked the software’s capability, reliability, ease of use, and technical support on a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best). The following rankings are the average of two sets of scores from both reviewers:
- Capability: 4.5
- Reliability: 4.2
- Ease of use: 4.5
- Technical support: 4.8 (a series of online video tutorials)
Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D, February 2007
Southwest Hydrology (Volume 6/Number1, January/February 2007) by John E. McCray – Colorado School of Mines
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Dear HYDRUS users,
You may be interested in a new review of HYDRUS, written by John McCray from The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, and recently published in the Southwest Hydrology.
We appreciate John‘s kind words regarding our software. We are aware that the HYDRUS documentation (despite already including 240 pages in the Technical Manual, 194 pages in the User Manual, 72 pages in the Wetland module manual, and over 1000 pages of Online Help) still needs a lot of improvements, and we are actively working on them. These new modifications are included in each new update (John reviewed one of the earlier Beta versions). We sincerely welcome comments on all aspects of the software and any suggestions for its improvement.
HYDRUS developers
Review of Hydrus-2D, December 2004
Southwest Hydrology (Volume 3/Number 6, November/December 2004) by Scott Tyler, Ph.D. - University of Nevada, Reno
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Review of Hydrus-1D, August 2004
Southwest Hydrology (Volume 3/Number 4, July/August 2004) by Bridget Scanlon, Ph.D. - University of Texas at Austin
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Review of the Hydrus-2D Book, May 2004
Vadose Zone Journal (Volume 3, May 2004) by John Selker, Ph.D. - Oregon State University at Corvallis
Full reference: Selker, J., Book Review, Modelling Variably Saturated Flow with HYDRUS-2D, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 725-725, 2004.
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Review of Hydrus-1D, August 2002
Intercode comparisons for simulating water balance of surficial sediments in semiarid regions
Water Resources Research, 38(12), 1323, doi:10.1029/2001WR001233, 59.1-59.16, 2002
Scanlon, B. R., M., Christman, R. Reedy, I. Porro, J. Simunek, and G. Flerchinger
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Review of Hydrus-2D, November 2000
Computer Spotlights in Ground Water (38(1), 10-11, 2000) by David M. Diodato, software editor
Quotations from the review:
- ... All of the reviewers were favorably impressed by HYDRUS 2D. The capabilities of this sophisticated code are impressive and the interface is well thought out...
- ... Meshgen-2D made irregular mesh generation painless. I get the most out of this package, we strongly recommend that Meshgen-2D should also be purchased...
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A bibliometric and visual analysis of contaminant transport modeling in the groundwater system
A Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D applications in tree crops under drip irrigation
- Morianou, G., N. N. Kourgialas, and G. P. Karatzas, A Review of HYDRUS 2D/3D applications for simulations of water dynamics, root uptake and solute transport in tree crops under drip irrigation, Water, 15, 741, 23 p., doi: 10.3390/w15040741, 2023.