Microgravity effects on water flow and distribution in unsaturated porous media: Analyses of flight experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 929-942

  Jones, Scott B ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; WATER;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROPONICS; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT ROOT; POROSITY; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROPONICS; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT ROOTS; POROSITY; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SIMULATION; WATER; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF WATER; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROUS MATERIALS;

MICROGRAVITY EFFECTS; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0032932749     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900091     Document Type: Article

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