Solute channeling in unsaturated heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2221-2238

  Birkholzer, Jens ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW; HYDRAULICS; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CHANNEL; FLOW PATH; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INFILTRATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030803245     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR01209     Document Type: Article

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