Characterizing heterogeneity of soil water flow by dye infiltration experiments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 328, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 559-571

  Wang, Kang ^a,c   Zhang, Renduo ^a,b   Yasuda, Hiroshi ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dye experiments; Flow heterogeneity; Measurement scale; Random cascade model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

DYE EXPERIMENTS; FLOW HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT SCALE; RANDOM CASCADE MODELS;

FLOW OF WATER;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; FLOW OF WATER; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

HETEROGENEITY; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 33746897750     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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