Heat and mass transfer in moist soil, part II. application to predicting thermal signatures of buried landmines

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 487-512

  Moukalled, F ^a   Ghaddar, N ^a   Saleh, Y ^a   Fawaz, Z ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; MINES; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOIL MECHANICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DIURNAL CYCLE; MATRIC POTENTIAL; SOIL SURFACE; THERMAL CONTRAST;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33745228438     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790500510965     Document Type: Article

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