A simulation study of the soil waterdynamics in a corn field was carried out inan area of Northern Greece during the 1996growing period. The soil water dynamicswere evaluated using a one-dimensionalmodel based on the Galerkin finite elementmethod. The simulations were carried out ontwo plots in the field which differed as tothe amount and timing of nitrogenfertilizer application. The irrigationwater was applied to the field ininadequate quantities, which resulted inlow water availability. Two procedures forobtaining soil hydraulic properties weretested with regard to the application inthe simulations. The pedotransfer functionsdeveloped by Vereecken et al. (1989,1990) were used to determine the parametersof the soil hydraulic functions, which werethen used in the model to simulate the soilwater dynamics. The simulated results werecompared with available measurements ofwater content at different depths in thesoil during the growing period. Thequalitative and quantitative procedures formodel evaluation showed that there was goodagreement between the simulated and themeasured values of water content atdifferent depths of soil. Results show thatsimulations based on pedotransfer functionspredict the water content reasonably wellcompared to results with the directedestimated hydraulic functions.