Abstract: | Two cases of two-dimensional steady seepage from broad channels and irrigation furrows through a layer of homogeneous isotropic soil into a highly permeable pressurized aquifer in the presence of soil capillarity are examined in the hydrodynamic formulation. A uniform method of solution in which the solution of the problem of seepage from an irrigation furrow can be obtained from the solution for a broad channel is given. The special and limiting cases studied in 1–3] and elsewhere are noted. Computer calculations are used to analyze the dependence of the rate of seepage from channels and irrigation furrows and the capillary spread on the profile and width of the channel or irrigation furrow, the thickness of the layer, the head and the capillarity of the soil.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 96–102, January–February, 1989.The authors are grateful to N. N. Verigin for valuable comments. |