Intrinsic sorptivity and water infiltration into dry soil at different degrees of saturation

Geotechnical Special Publication

Volumn , Issue 163, 2007, Pages

  Schulte, K E ^a,c   Culligan, P J ^a,c   Germaine, J T ^b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge

^c ASCE ^*

Author keywords

Infiltration; Sorptivity; Unsaturated transport; Vadoze Zone

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INFILTRATION; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SOILS; SORPTION;

MILLER-SIMILAR MATERIALS; SORPTIVITY; UNSATURATED TRANSPORT; VADOZE ZONE;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548309038     PISSN: 08950563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40907(226)5     Document Type: Article

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