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Record W4413685033 · doi:10.3390/w17172536

Experimental and Numerical Study on the Coupled Processes of Salt Migration and Moisture Movement Under Evaporation in the Vadose Zone

2025· article· en· W4413685033 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueWater · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicFreezing and Crystallization Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsVadose zoneMoistureEvaporationEnvironmental scienceMovement (music)Salt (chemistry)Soil scienceHydrology (agriculture)GeologyGeotechnical engineeringSoil waterChemistryThermodynamicsPhysics

Abstract

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In arid and semi-arid regions, soil salinization has emerged as an escalating environmental challenge. Soil salinity not only alters the soil structure but also influences water movement and distribution. The coupled processes of water movement, heat transfer, and solute transport in the vadose zone interact dynamically, warranting an in-depth investigation into coupled processes of matter and energy. This study developed a numerical model of coupled water-vapor–heat–salt transport in the vadose zone, validated through evaporation experiments and compared with a conventional model excluding osmotic potential. It is found that salt presence reduces evaporation rates while enhancing soil moisture movement. Liquid water movement is primarily governed by matric and osmotic potential gradient, whereas water vapor movement is dominated by temperature gradients. Matric potential influences water vapor movement only at the soil surface, and the impact of salt on water vapor movement diminishes with increasing water content. Notably, matric potential significantly affects water vapor movement only when soil water vapor relative humidity is below unity. The proposed model effectively describes multi-field coupling transport and clarifies the role of osmotic potential in regulating liquid and vapor water dynamics.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.087
Threshold uncertainty score0.113

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it