A new capillary and thin film flow model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lebeau, Marc ^a   Konrad, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL CAPILLARY TUBES; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; NEW MODEL; NUMERICAL MODELS; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIA; PREDICTIVE MODELS; THIN FILM FLOW; THIN LIQUID FILM; UNIFORM SIZE; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER RETENTION; WATER TRANSPORT; WET AND DRY; WET MEDIA;

FUNCTIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIQUID FILMS; POROUS MATERIALS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; THIN FILMS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CAPILLARITY; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER FLOW;

EID: 79551537533     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009092     Document Type: Article

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