Soil water movement under a single surface trickle source

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 799-808

  Bhatnagar, P R ^a   Chauhan, H S ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF POST HARVEST ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Oblate spheroidal coordinates; Soil water movement; Trickle source; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL SURVEYS; WETTING;

OBLATE SPHEROIDAL COORDINATES; SOIL WATER MOVEMENT; TRICKLE SOURCE; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FLOW OF WATER;

FLOW OF WATER; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL SURVEYS; WETTING;

DRIP IRRIGATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 44649091848     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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