About one boundary-value problem arising in modeling dynamics of groundwater

Abstract

Modeling the movement of moisture in the soil is of great importance for assessing the impact of agricultural land on surface water bodies and, consequently, on the natural environment and humans. This is because huge volumes of pollutants from the fields (pesticides, mineral fertilizers, nitrates, and nutrients contained in them) are transferred to reservoirs by filtering moisture. Different methods solve all these tasks. The method of natural analogies is based on the analysis of graphs of fluctuations in groundwater level. To apply this method on irrigated lands, it is necessary to have a sufficiently studied irrigated area with similar natural, organizational and economic conditions. The successful application of this method, based on the fundamental theory of physical similarity, mainly depends on the availability of a sufficiently close comparison object, which is quite rare in practice. Physical modeling is often used to construct dams and other hydraulic structures. Previously, the method of electrical modeling was also widely used. It was further found that nonlocal boundary conditions arise in the problems of predicting soil moisture, modeling fluid filtration in porous media, mathematical modeling of laser radiation processes, and plasma physics problems, as well as mathematical biology.