Unconventional flow of water from dry to wet caused by hysteresis: A numerical experiment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2587-2590

  Heinen, Marius ^a   Raats, Peter A C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

DEPENDENT DOMAIN MODEL; DOMAIN MODEL; DRYING CURVES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MOISTURE CAPACITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SQUARE ROOTS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

HYDROLOGY; HYSTERESIS;

FLOW MODELING; HYSTERESIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOIL COLUMN;

EID: 0032838531     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900136     Document Type: Article

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