Generalized Richards' equation to simulate water transport in unsaturated soils

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 272, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 3-13

  Pachepsky, Yakov ^a   Timlin, Dennis ^a   Rawls, Walter ^a  

^a BARC EAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional derivative; Horizontal infiltration; Scaling; Soil water transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS; WETTING;

WATER TRANSPORT;

SOILS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 0037430330     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(02)00251-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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