Laboratory investigations of effective flow behavior in unsaturated heterogeneous sands

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-27

  Wildenschild, D ^a,b   Jensen, K H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFLECTOMETERS; SAND; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GRAVITY FLOW; STEADY STATE FLUX METHOD; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR); TORTUOSITY; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FLOW PATTERNS;

FLOW PATTERN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED ZONE;

EID: 0032949902     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01958     Document Type: Article

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