Correspondence of the Gardner and van Genuchten-Mualem relative permeability function parameters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Ghezzehei, Teamrat A ^a   Kneafsey, Timothy J ^a   Su, Grace W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVERSION FORMULAE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

FLOW OF WATER;

FLOW OF WATER; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 36749087467     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005339     Document Type: Article

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