Water retention of repellent and subcritical repellent soils: New insights from model and experimental investigations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 380, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 104-111

  Czachor, H ^a   Doerr, S H ^b   Lichner, L ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Pore modeling; Repellency; Soil; Water retention; Wetting angle

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIELD SOIL; HYDROPHOBIZATIONS; MINERAL SURFACES; NON-CYLINDRICAL; PORE GEOMETRY; QUARTZ SAND; SOIL MINERALS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PORES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WATER RETENTION; SOIL WETTABILITY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WATER CONTACT ANGLE; WATER REPELLENT SOILS; WATER REPELLENTS; WATER RETENTION; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WETTING ANGLE; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONTACT ANGLE; DEWATERING; FORESTRY; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT; WATERPROOFING; WETTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; RETENTION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SURFACE TENSION; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION; WETTING; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 71849086054     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.10.027     Document Type: Article

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