Comment on "Theory for source-responsive and free-surface film modeling of unsaturated flow"

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1100-1101

  Germann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; LEACHING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL WATER; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 79960200339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0072     Document Type: Article

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