Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity in porous media: Percolation theory

Geoderma

Volumn 187-188, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-84

  Ghanbarian Alavijeh, Behzad ^a   Hunt, Allen G ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Percolation theory; Pore solid fractal approach; Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Indexed keywords

HIGH WATER CONTENT; NEW MODEL; PERCOLATION THEORY; PORE-SOLID FRACTALS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER RETENTION;

FRACTALS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL MOISTURE;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84861217464     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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