Critical evaluation of enhancement factors for vapor transport through unsaturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT TRANSITION; CRITICAL EVALUATION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EVAPORATION RATE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FICK'S LAW; FICK'S LAW OF DIFFUSION; HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY; HYDRAULIC CONNECTION; LATE STAGE; LIQUID FLOW; MASS TRANSPORT; PARTIALLY SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIA; SAND COLUMNS; TOTAL FLUX; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; UNOBSERVABLE; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; UNSATURATED ZONE; VAPOR DIFFUSION; VAPOR FLUXES; VAPOR TRANSPORT; WATER VAPOR FLUX;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER VAPOR;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 72149116176     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007769     Document Type: Article

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