Drying front and water content dynamics during evaporation from sand delineated by neutron radiography

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Shokri, N ^a   Lehmann, P ^a   Vontobel, P ^b   Or, D ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CURING; DEWATERING; DRYING; EVAPORATION; FLOW OF WATER; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOISTURE; NEUTRON EMISSION; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; NEUTRONS; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VAPORS; WATER CONTENT;

DRY REGIONS; DRYING RATES; EVAPORATIVE DEMANDS; EVAPORATIVE DRYING; EXTERNAL-; HELE-SHAW CELLS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID FLOWS; POROUS MEDIUMS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; SATURATION PROFILES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SURFACE EVAPORATION; VISCOUS BOUNDARY LAYERS; WATER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT PROFILES; WATER LOSS RATES;

PHASE INTERFACES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SAND; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 49449107186     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006385     Document Type: Article

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