Predicting wetting front advance in soils using simple laboratory derived hydraulic parameters

Water Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1471-1477

  Moldrup, P ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^b   Rolston, D E ^c   Hansen, J Aa ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MECHANICS; WATER FILTRATION; WETTING;

EXTREME SOIL AND WATER REPELLENCY; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; NATURAL LOGARITHM; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL AND WATER POTENTIAL PLOTTING; WETTING FRONT ADVANCE;

SOILS;

ARTICLE; DENMARK; FOREST; LABORATORY; LEACHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER FLOW;

HYDRAULIC RESEARCH; IRRIGATION SCHEMES;

EQUATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODEL; PARAMETER; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; WASTEWATER; WETTING FRONT;

DENMARK;

EID: 0030153036     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1354(95)00277-4     Document Type: Article

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