SILVA, Vicente de Paula; SRINIVASAN, Vajapeyam S; AZEVEDO, Carlos Alberto Vieira de
Résumé:
It was evaluated the performance of three types of envelope, used in the
agricultural land drainage, that were installed around tubular drains in a horizontal sand
tank model. It is believable that the drain systems, of which drain pipe has a bigger
number of perforation lines (flexible tube and smooth PVC) and a larger inlet area
(ceramic tube), have influenced to reduce the entrance resistance. The increase in this
parameter, verified for the drain system composed of ceramic tube without envelope,
induced to a higher convergence of the flow lines close to the tube.