Capillary pressure-saturation relations for saprolite: Scaling with and without correction for column height

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 493-501

  Perfect, E ^a   McKay, L D ^a   Cropper, S C ^b   Driese, S G ^a   Kammerer, G ^c   Dane, J H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b BOKU ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; FORECASTING; IMPURITIES; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS;

CAPILLARY DISPLACEMENT; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION INDEX; UNDISTURBED COLUMNS;

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EID: 33646232160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.2.493     Document Type: Article

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