A direct, approximate solution to the modified Green-Ampt infiltration equation

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1411-1413

  Srivastava, P ^a,b   Costello, T A ^a,b   Edwards, D R ^a,c  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infiltration; Modeling; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

GREEN-AMPT EQUATION; INFILTRATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL/RUNOFF MODEL;

EID: 0029659672     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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