Water Drainage in Layered Soils. Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulation

Water Resources Management

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 437-444

  Sakellariou Makrantonaki, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Experiment; Finite differences; Layered unsaturated soil; Periodically changing head; Simulation; Water first and second drainage; radiation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; SAND; SOILS; WATER;

GAMMA RAY ABSORPTION; LAYERED SOIL; TENSIOMETERS; WATER DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAYERED SOIL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0031428616     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007900415561     Document Type: Article

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