Drag force approach to the transport of colloids in unsaturated soils

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 18-1-18-15

  Germann, Peter F ^a   Alaoui, Abdallah ^a   Riesen, Dagmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BCD GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colloid transport; Film flow; Macropore flow; Momentum dissipation; Preferential flow; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COLLOIDS; DRAG; LOADS (FORCES); POROUS MATERIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SOIL COLUMNS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

COLLOID; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL; UNSATURATED FLOW;

DRAG; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW;

UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0036822379     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000744     Document Type: Article

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