Abstract: Working on the assumption that temperature affects water viscosity and emitter geometry, the writers have developed a dimensional analysis approach to the potential pressure-discharge relationship to estimate discharge ...

Abstract: This work studies the most beneficial way of allocating water in an irrigation community in water shortage situations. Therefore, it proposes that the irrigation surface area be divided into homogeneous zones, each with a ...

Abstract: This paper presents a matrix algebraic expression based on the probability of pressure deficit. A set of expressions to calculate the average and the variance of the aggregated head losses in any pathway of the irrigation ...

Abstract: Cavitation effects in valves and other sudden transitions in water distribution systems are studied as their better understanding and quantification is needed for design and analysis purposes and ...

Abstract: Minor head losses at emitter insertions along drip laterals were predicted by a derivation of Bélanger’s theorem and analyzed by the classic formula that includes a friction coefficient

Abstract: Values of friction coefficient

Abstract: Analytical expressions have been developed relating water distribution indexes in trapezoidal drip irrigation units to design variables which define these units: lengths and diameters of pipes, emitter and lateral spacing, ...

Abstract: A complete methodology to predict water distribution in laterals and units of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) is proposed. Two computer programs have been developed for the hydraulic characterization of SDI; one for ...