Horizontal infiltration method for determining brooks-corey model parameters

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1733-1739

  Wang, Quanjiu ^a   Horton, Robert ^b   Shao, Mingan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

RETENTION CURVES;

GROUNDWATER;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0036852938     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2002.1733     Document Type: Article

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