A new model for soil hydraulic properties based on a stochastic conceptualization of porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Chan, T P ^a   Govindaraju, R S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductivity; Pore size distribution; Porous media model; Soil water retention

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AIR ENTRY PRESSURE; WATER MOVEMENT;

SOILS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PORE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL; WATER CONTENT;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL WATER;

EID: 17144446876     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001954     Document Type: Article

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