Infiltration from a surface point source and drip irrigation 2. An approximate time-dependent solution for wet-front position

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1869-1874

  Revol, P ^a,f   Clothier, B E ^b   Mailhol, J C ^c,e   Vachaud, G ^d   Vauclin, M ^d  

^a Fr Inst Agric Environ Eng Res   (France)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c Fr Inst Agric Environ Eng Res   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Groupement de Montpellier   (France)

^f Groupement de Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION; WETTABILITY;

DRIP IRRIGATION; INFILTRATION; POINT SOURCE; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW; WETTING FRONT;

IRRIGATION; WETTING;

APPROXIMATE ANALYSIS; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; STEADY-STATE REGIME; STEADY-STATE THEORY; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS; TRANSIENT PATTERNS; TRANSIENT SOLUTIONS;

INFILTRATION;

EID: 0030746750     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR01007     Document Type: Article

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