R-SWMS was originally developped in the Agrosphere institute of the Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH in 2004-2006. It has then been continuously developped through research projects and PhD grants at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany) and at the Environmental Sciences Dep. of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

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Developers and contributors

All the people who contributed to R-SWMS are listed here:

Mathieu Javaux: post-doc at FZJ (2004-2006): developped the original R-SWMS code coupling water flow in soil and roots.

Tom Schroeder: PhD student at FZJ (2006-2009). He proposed several solutions to account for small scale

Natalie Schroeder: PhD student at FZJ/UCL (2010-2013). She added the particle tracking in soil (PARTRACE) and roots.

Valentin Couvreur : PhD student at UCL (2009-2013). He developped a simplified RWU model and added the periodic boundary conditions for soil and roots.

Katrin Huber : PhD student (2011-2014) and post-doc (2014-) at FZJ . She implemented a novel stomatal conductance model functio of ABA and xylem pressure. She also adapted root growth.

Félicien Meunier: PhD student at UCL (2013-2017). He adapted the input files to comply with RSML format.

Nimrod Schwartz: post-doc at UCL (2014-2016). He implemented the water flow in the rizosphere affected by mucilage.

Asta Kunkel: is PhD student in Juelich (2014-2015) working on pesticide transport.

Magdalena Landl is PhD student in FZ-Juelich (2014-2017) working on transport in structured soil.

Helena Jorda Guerra is PhD student at KULeuven and FZJ (2015-) working on impact of salinity on root water uptake.

Axelle Koch is PhD student at UCLouvain (2016-) working on root growth and competition between plants.