Capillary barrier performance in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 603-609

  Ho, Clifford K ^a   Webb, Stephen W ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL;

CAPILLARY BARRIER; POROUS MEDIUM;

SOILS;

CAPILLARY BARRIER SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEADY-STATE INFILTRATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0031922965     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00217     Document Type: Article

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