The influence of free convection on soil salinization in arid regions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-301

  Gilman, Arkady ^a   Bear, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Free convection; Multigrid; Salinization; Through flow; Vadoze zone

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EVAPORATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOILS; STABILITY;

CONSTANT WATER SATURATION; DISPERSIVITY; EVAPORATION RATE; FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; HORIZONTAL SOIL LAYER; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SALT CONCENTRATION; SOIL SALINIZATION; STABILITY LIMIT;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; SALINITY; SOILS; WATER TABLES;

ARID REGION; FREE CONVECTION; SALINITY; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 0030157490     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00167100     Document Type: Article

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