Applicability of the Washburn theory for determining the wetting angle of soils

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2239-2247

  Czachor, Henryk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hydrophobic; Pore waviness; Soil water repellency; Soil wettability; Sub critical repellency; Tortuosity; Washburn theory

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

PORE WAVINESS; SOIL PORES; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; SOIL WETTABILITY; TORTUOSITY; WASHBURN THEORY; WETTING ANGLE;

SOILS;

KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; WETTING;

CAPILLARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; TORTUOSITY; WETTING;

EID: 34548070206     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6753     Document Type: Article

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