Laboratory Mission

Covers teaching and research needs in the field of agricultural hydraulics:

piped systems, open and closed pipes, flow measurement, drainage, movement of water in the soil, methods of irrigation (outdoors), quality of irrigation water, hydrology, water resources management, climate change.

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Members:

Dr Anastasia Angelaki, Laboratory Teaching Staff

Physicist, Graduate Physics Department, University of Ioannina.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agriculture, Crop Production & Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly.

Thesis title: “Study of the hydrodynamic parameters of the unsaturated flow, using laboratory experiments and mathematical modeling”.

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Research

• Modern irrigation systems.
• Numerical simulation of water in unsaturated soils.
• Hysterisis phenomenon in soil characteristic curves and hydraulic conductivity.
• Sensitivity of parameters in models describing soil characteristics curve.
• Solving problems of permanent water movement in saturated media.
• Solving problems of vertical onedimensional flow in unsaturated and layered soils.
• Technical repletion of aquifers.
• Comparative evaluation of models that predict hydraulic conductivity in unsaturated conditions.
• Estimation of total water requirements of crops in Thessaly plain.
• Design and installation of automated systems of surface and subsurface drip irrigation in cotton, sugar beets and sorghum.
• Re-use of municipal liquid waste for crop irrigation using automated systems of drip and sprinkle irrigation.
• Design and experimental search different surface drip irrigation techniques in sugar beet.
• Irrigation and cultivation practices effects on crops growing.
• Experimental measurements, in the laboratory, of soil moisture in soil samples with radioactive gamma radiation and the soil water pressure with pressure transducers.
• Determination of soil characteristic curves during infiltration-drainage, secondary hysterisis loops, cumulative infiltration, wetting front movement and soil water pressure.
• Experimental measurements in the laboratory of hydraulic conductivity in soil samples from Thessaloniki plain, applying different flow rates.
• Experimental in-situ determination of soil characteristic curves using neutron-probe and TDR method.
• Experimental in-situ measurements of soil infiltration.
• Experimental measurements of water flow velocity in closed pipes by using Laser technology (anemometer with Laser).
• Experimental measurements in the laboratory of soil moisture and pressure variation against time and depth, for the determination of soil wetting-draining characteristic curves in layered soils.
• Determination of primary infiltration curves and hysterisis loop.
• Experimental measures of water flow velocity of Loudias River with portable flow meter.
• In-situ measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity using Guelph Permeameter.
• Hydrology, water resources management, fuzzy logic και climate change.
• Individual and collective irrigation networks.
• Rational cultivation practices of Hippophae rhamnoides in Greece.

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Courses

Graduate courses

• Hydraulics
• Hydrology
• Irrigation

Postgraduate courses

• Irrigation (Postgraduate Program: “Automation in irrigation, in agricultural constructions and in the mechanization of agriculture”)
• Water Resources Management (Postgraduate Program: “Automation in irrigation, in agricultural constructions and in the mechanization of agriculture”)
• Irrigation (Postgraduate Program: “Sustainable crop production and environmental management”)
• Natural resources management (Postgraduate Program: “Sustainable crop production and environmental management”)
• Reuse of liquid and solid waste (Postgraduate Program: “Sustainable crop production and environmental management”)
• Waste management and environmental impact studies(Postgraduate Program: “Sustainable crop production and environmental management”)