On the Structure and Flow Processes in the Capillary Fringe of Phreatic Aquifers

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-180

  Ronen, Daniel ^a   Scher, Harvey ^a   Blunt, Martin ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary fringe; Multiphase flow; Network modeling; Saturated unsaturated interface

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CAPILLARY FLOW; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROUS MATERIALS;

CAPILLARY FRINGE;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

AQUIFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NETWORK; POROUS MEDIUM;

AQUIFER; CAPILLARY FRINGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHREATIC ZONE; POROUS MEDIUM;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0031200956     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006583410617     Document Type: Article

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