Estimation of unsaturated flow in layered soils with the finite control volume method

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 349-358

  Arampatzis, George ^a   Tzimopoulos, Christos ^a   Sakellariou Makrantonaki, Maria ^b   Yannopoulos, Stavros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drainage; Finite control volume; Infiltration; Water mass balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749190299     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.31     Document Type: Article

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