Can continuum extensions to multiphase flow models describe preferential flow?

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 268-277

  DiCarlo, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM FLOW; CONTINUUM MODEL; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FLOW PATH; HIGHER ORDER; MULTI-PHASE FLOW MODELS; NONMONOTONIC; POROUS MEDIA; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RICHARDS EQUATION; TESTING GROUNDS; UNSATURATED FLOWS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DATA SET; FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; GRAVITY FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RICHARDS EQUATION; SATURATION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 77955444199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0099     Document Type: Article

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