Watertable dynamics under capillary fringes: Experiments and modelling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 503-515

  Nielsen, Peter ^a   Perrochet, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capillary fringe; Effective porosity watertable

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; POROSITY; SAND;

CAPILLARY FRINGES; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; RICHARDS EQUATION; SAND COLUMN; TOTAL MOISTURE CONTENT; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WATERTABLE DYNAMICS; WATERTABLE HEIGHT;

GROUNDWATER;

CAPILLARY FRINGE; GROUNDWATER; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROSITY; WATER TABLE;

EID: 0343963115     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(99)00038-X     Document Type: Article

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