Reply to comment by David A. DiCarlo on "a phase field model of unsaturated flow"

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Cueto Felgueroso, L ^a   Juanes, R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; CAPILLARY EQUILIBRIA; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; EQUILIBRIUM SATURATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FOURTH-ORDER; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; NONLOCAL TERM; PHASE FIELD MODELS; PHASE-FIELD APPROACHES; QUASISTATIC PROCESS; SATURATION OVERSHOOT; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; TRANSITION REGIONS; UNSATURATED FLOWS; WATER POTENTIAL; WETTING FRONTS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; SURFACE TENSION;

SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; HYDROSTATICS; IMBIBITION; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; SATURATION; UNSATURATED FLOW; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 78650020386     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009723     Document Type: Article

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