Soil hydraulic functions determined from measurements of air permeability, capillary modeling, and high-dimensional parameter estimation

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 459-465

  Dane, Jacob H ^a   Vrugt, Jasper A ^b,c   Unsal, Evren ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LABORATORY PROCEDURES; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PORE MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; RESIDUAL SATURATION; ROBUST APPROACHES; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL HYDRAULICS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER RETENTION;

ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS;

AIR PERMEABILITY;

AIR PERMEABILITY; ALGORITHM; CAPILLARITY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 79960185726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0053     Document Type: Article

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