Combined evaporation and salt precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Nachshon, Uri ^a   Weisbrod, Noam ^a   Dragila, Maria I ^b   Grader, Abraham ^c,d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INGRAIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SALINE WATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

COMBINED EFFECT; CRUST FORMATIONS; CT SCAN; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EVAPORATION PROCESS; EVAPORATION RATE; GRAIN SIZE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; LARGE PORES; LOW-SALINITY WATER; MATRIX; OSMOTIC POTENTIAL; PURE WATER; SALINE SOLUTIONS; SALT DEPOSITION; SALT PRECIPITATION; SAND COLUMNS; SOIL CONDITIONS; TEXTURED REGIONS; TWO LAYERS; VAPOR TRANSPORT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EVAPORATION;

DEPOSITION; EVAPORATION; GRAIN SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SALINE SOIL; SALT; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79952775326     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009677     Document Type: Article

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