One-dimensional freezing of nonheaving unsaturated soils: Model formulation and similarity solution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Sheshukov, Aleksey Y ^a   Nieber, John L ^b  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED FLOW; EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; HEAT TRANSPORT; LENS FORMATION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER SATURATION; MODEL FORMULATION; PORE FILLING; RUNGE-KUTTA; SELF-SIMILAR EQUATIONS; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; THREE ZONES; TRANSITION ZONES; UNSATURATED SOIL; UNSATURATED ZONE; VARIABLY SATURATED;

FREEZING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ICE; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

LIQUIDS;

EQUILIBRIUM; FREEZING; HEAT FLUX; HEAVE; ICE FLOW; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; THERMODYNAMICS; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 81755182896     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010512     Document Type: Article

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