Experimental and modeling investigation of unsaturated solute transport with water-table fluctuation

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-31

  Legout, C ^a   Molenat, J ^b   Hamon, Y ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UMR SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL POROSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; GRANITE; INFILTRATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER COLUMN; WATER TABLE;

EID: 62149130449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2007.0182     Document Type: Article

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