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FLOW: Vadose: van Genuchten
===========================

Shows the water retention curve and the hydraulic conductivity
function for a number of soil types.

For more information about the parameters used see:

The RETC code for quantifying the hydraulic functions of unsaturated
soils, Van Genuchten, M Th, Leij, F J, Yates, S R

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.. image-sg:: /content/examples/20-published/images/sphx_glr_plot_vadose_vangenuchten_001.png
   :alt: Water retention curve, Hydraulic conductivity function
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.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    import discretize
    from SimPEG.flow import richards


    def run(plotIt=True):
        mesh = discretize.TensorMesh([10])
        VGparams = richards.empirical.VanGenuchtenParams()
        leg = []
        for p in dir(VGparams):
            if p[0] == "_":
                continue
            leg += [p]
            params = getattr(VGparams, p)
            k_fun, theta_fun = richards.empirical.van_genuchten(mesh, **params)
            theta_fun.plot(ax=plt.subplot(121))
            k_fun.plot(ax=plt.subplot(122))

        plt.legend(leg, loc=3)


    if __name__ == "__main__":
        run()
        plt.show()


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**Estimated memory usage:**  8 MB


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