Infiltration and deep flow over sloping surfaces: Comparison of numerical and experimental results

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 374, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 30-42

  Essig, Emily T ^a   Corradini, Corrado ^b   Morbidelli, Renato ^b   Govindaraju, Rao S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrus; Infiltration; Numerical solutions; Saturated unsaturated flow model; Sharp front model

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; CURRENT THEORIES; DEEP FLOW; HYDRUS; HYDRUS MODEL; KINEMATIC WAVE APPROXIMATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; ON-SURFACE FLOW; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL RATES; SATURATED CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW MODEL; SHALLOW FLOW; SHARP-FRONT MODEL; SLOPING SURFACES; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TYPES; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE SLOPE; WATER FRONT;

COILED TUBING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFILTRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOIL TYPE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 67650381882     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.05.017     Document Type: Article

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