Microstructural and phase configurational effects determining water content: Dielectric relationships of aggregated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Blonquist Jr , J M ^a   Jones, S B ^a   Lebron, I ^a,b   Robinson, D A ^a,b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONTENT-PERMITTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; DUAL-POROSITY PORE NETWORK; INTERAGGREGATE PORES; WATER RETENTION CHARACTERISTIC (WRC);

WATER RESOURCES;

DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER RESOURCES;

AGGREGATE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; DRAINAGE WATER; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERMITTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 33745457703     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004418     Document Type: Article

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