Effects of solute concentration-dependent surface tension on unsaturated flow: Laboratory sand column experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 973-982

  Smith, James E ^a   Gillham, Robert W ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; SOLUTE; SURFACE TENSION; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 0032957822     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900106     Document Type: Article

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