WetUp: A software tool to display approximate wetting patterns from drippers

Irrigation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 129-134

  Cook, Freeman J ^a   Thorburn, Peter J ^a   Fitch, Peter ^a   Bristow, Keith L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULICS; INFILTRATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOILS; WETTING;

ELLIPSOIDAL APPROXIMATION; RADIAL WETTING;

IRRIGATION;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PERMEABILITY; SOFTWARE; WETTING;

EID: 0346843120     PISSN: 03427188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00271-003-0078-2     Document Type: Article

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