The effect of micro-heterogeneity and capillary number on capillary pressure and relative permeability curves of soils

Geoderma

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-34

  Aggelopoulos, C A ^a,b   Tsakiroglou, C D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capillary number; Capillary pressure; Heterogeneity; Relative permeability; Resistivity index; Soil column; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); ELECTRODES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIQUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS; SOLIDS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY NUMBER; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HETEROGENEITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESISTIVITY INDEX; SOIL COLUMN;

CAPILLARITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAIN SIZE; HETEROGENEITY; IMMISCIBILITY; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRESSURE DROP; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 54849431568     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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