A review of fractal, prefractal and pore-solid-fractal models for parameterizing the soil water retention curve

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Ghanbarian Alavijeh, Behzad ^a,b   Millán, Humberto ^c   Huang, Guanhua ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Granma   (Cuba)

^d CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal approach; Pore solid fractal; Prefractal models; Soil water retention curve

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

AVES;

EID: 79952228197     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: 19181841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJSS10008     Document Type: Review

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