Water retention models for scale-variant and scale-invariant drainage of mass prefractal porous media

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 786-792

  Cihan, Abdullah ^a   Perfect, Ed ^a   Tyner, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; RESEARCH WORK; SIMULATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 36849085874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2007.0062     Document Type: Article

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