ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF BORDER IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

Application efficiency (Ea) is the primary criterion for border irrigation design and management. The objectiveof this study is to analyze the behavior of the application efficiency function of border irrigation with respect to border length(L) and unit inlet flow rate (qo), given a target minimum application depth. The results show that the application efficiencyfunction is unimodal with respect to L and qo. Optimality conditions are derived...