Numerical evaluation of a second-order water transfer term for variably saturated dual-permeability models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Köhne, J Maximilian ^a   Mohanty, Binayak P ^a   Simunek, Jirka ^b   Gerke, Horst H ^c  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual permeability model; Preferential flow; Second order transfer term

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOILS;

FLOW EQUATIONS; PREFERENTIAL FLOW;

WATER RESOURCES;

DUAL POROSITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL WATER;

EID: 4143153896     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003285     Document Type: Article

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