The Green-Ampt limit with reference to infiltration coefficients

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Triadis, D ^a   Broadbridge, P ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL METHODS; EXACTLY SOLVABLE MODEL; GREEN-AMPT; GREEN-AMPT INFILTRATION; HYDRAULIC FUNCTIONS; INFILTRATION MODELS; INITIAL VALUES; LINEAR CONDUCTIVITY; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONSINGULAR; RECENT PROGRESS; SATURATED WATER; SOIL BEHAVIORS; SOIL MOISTURE POTENTIAL; TIME DEPENDENT;

DIFFUSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

DELTA FUNCTIONS;

DIFFUSIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NONLINEARITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84864740285     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011747     Document Type: Article

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