Hydraulic non-equilibrium during infiltration induced by structural connectivity

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-112

  Schlüter, Steffen ^a   Vanderborght, Jan ^b   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Hydraulic non equilibrium; Preferential flow; Pressure head averaging; Transient flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; PRESSURE HEADS; TRANSIENT FLOW; UPSCALING;

DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

INFILTRATION;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC HEAD; INFILTRATION; MACROPORE; MORPHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; PRESSURE FIELD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84861962045     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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