1. General Model Information
Name: Vegetative Filter Strip Model
Acronym: VFSMOD
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: hydrology, soil science
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: partial differential equations (finite elements)
Main application:
Keywords: erosion, soil, infiltration, kinematic wave
Contact:
Rafael Munoz-Carpena
University of Florida
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
IFAS-Tropical Research and Education Center
18905 SW 280 Street, Homestead, FL 33031-3314
Tel.: Office: 305 246-7001 x288 Suncom 478-7001 x288
Fax: 305 246-7003 Suncom 478-7003
email: carpena@ufl.edu
homepage: http://carpena.ifas.ufl.edu/
John E. Parsons
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Box 7625, NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7625 (USA)
email: john_parsons@ncsu.edu
Author(s):
Rafael Munoz-Carpena and John E. Parsons
Abstract:
VFSMOD is a field scale, mechanistic, storm-based model designed to route the incoming
hydrograph and sedimentograph from an adjacent field through a vegetative filter strip (VFS) and
to calculate the outflow, infiltration and sediment trapping efficiency.
The model handles time dependent hyetographs, space distributed filter parameters (vegetation
roughness or density, slope, infiltration characteristics) and different particle size of the incoming
sediment. Any combination of unsteady storm and incoming hydrograph types can be used.
The model has been field tested for different soil and climatic conditions in the uplands of the
Piedmont and Coastal Plain areas of North Carolina (Muņoz-Carpena, R., 1993).
Source of the Abstract:
VFSMOD online Documentation
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): UNIX, DOS
VFSMOD online
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s): FORTRAN
VFSMOD online
II.3 Manuals:
VFSMOD online
II.4 Data:
VFSMOD online
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
VFSMOD online
III.2 Quantities
VFSMOD online
III.2.1 Input
VFSMOD online
III.2.2 Output
VFSMOD online
IV. References
Barfield B.J., E.W. Tollner and J.C. Hayes. 1978. The use of grass filters for sediment control in strip mining drainage. Vol. I: Theoretical studies on artificial media. Pub. no. 35-RRR2-78. Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Barfield B.J., E.W. Tollner and J.C. Hayes. 1979. Filtration of sediment by simulated vegetation I. Steady-state flow with homogeneous sediment. Transactions of ASAE. 22(5):540-545.
Barfield, B.J., L.G. Wells, and C.T. Haan. 1981. Applied Hydrology and Sedimentology for Disturbed Areas. Oklahoma Technical Press. Stillwater.
Hayes, J.C., B.J. Barfield and R.I. Barnhisel. 1979. Filtration of sediment by simulated vegetation II. Unsteady flow with non-homogeneous sediment. Transactions of ASAE. 22(5):1063-1967.
Hayes, J.C., B.J. Barfield and R.I. Barnhisel. 1984. Performance of grass filters under laboratory and field conditions. Transactions of ASAE. 27(5):1321-1331.
Lighthill, M.J. and C.B. Whitham. 1955. On kinematic waves: flood movement in long rivers. Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A. 22:281-316.
Muñoz-Carpena, R. 1993. Modeling hydrology and sediment transport on vegetative filter strips. Ph.D. dissertation, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh.
Muñoz-Carpena, R., C.T. Miller, J.E. Parsons. 1993a. A quadratic Petrov-Galerkin solution for kinematic wave overland flow. Water Resour. Res. 29(8):2615-2627.
Muñoz-Carpena, R., J.E. Parsons and J.W. Gilliam. 1993b. Numerical approach to the overland flow process in vegetative filter strips. Transactions of ASAE. 36(3):761-770.
Tollner, E.W., B.J. Barfield, C. Vachirakornwatana and C.T. Haan. 1977. Sediment deposition patterns in simulated grass filters. Transactions of ASAE. 20(5):940-944.
Vieux, B.E., V.F. Bralts, L.J. Segerlind and R.B. Wallace. 1990. Finite element watershed modeling: one-dimensional elements. J. Water Resour., Planning and Mgmt. Div. ASCE., 116(6):803-819.
Wilson, B.N., B.J. Barfield and I.D. Moore. 1981. A Hydrology and Sedimentology Watershed Model, Part I: Modeling Techniques. Technical Report. Department of Agricultural Engineering. University of Kentucky. Lexington.
Woolhiser, D.A., R.E. Smith and D.C. Goodrich. 1990. KINEROS, A Kinematic Runoff and Erosion Model: Documentation and User Manual. USDA-ARS. ARS-Pub. no. 77.
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VFSMOD online
VI. Additional remarks
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