Small-scale features of gravity-driven flow in unsaturated fractures

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 592-601

  Su, Grace W ^a   Geller, Jil T ^a   Hunt, James R ^b   Pruess, Karsten ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE; GLASS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LIQUIDS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADVANCING FRONT; CONTACT ANGLE HYSTERESIS; GRAVITY DRIVEN FLOW; IMPORTANT FEATURES; PARALLEL PLATES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE;

WETTING;

EID: 31444455229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.2.592     Document Type: Article

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