Infiltration in unsaturated layered fluvial deposits at Rio Bravo: Macroscopic anisotropy and heterogeneous transport

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-31

  Glass, R J ^a   Brainard, J R ^a   Jim Yeh, T C ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; CAPILLARY BARRIERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; FRESH WATER; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; INFILTROMETERS; LATERAL SPREADING; MACROSCOPIC ANISOTROPY; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SMALL SCALE; STRONG ANISOTROPY; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL SLICES; WETTING FRONTS;

ADSORPTION; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; SEEPAGE;

WETTING;

EID: 36849081724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/4.1.22     Document Type: Article

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