Tracing the entrapped air in heterogeneous soil by means of magnetic resonance imaging

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 373-384

  Sněhota, Michal ^a   Císlerová, Milena ^a   Gao Amin, M H ^b   Hall, Lawrence D ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; LARGE PORES; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; PRESSURE HEADS; PROTON DENSITY; QUASI-STEADY-STATE FLOW; SAMPLE DENSITY; SANDY LOAMS; SECOND INFILTRATION; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; UNDISTURBED SOILS; WET SAMPLE;

EXPERIMENTS; RESONANCE; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AIRFLOW; DRAINAGE; FLOW VELOCITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; IMAGING METHOD; INFILTRATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; SANDY LOAM; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; STEADY FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955458805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0103     Document Type: Article

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