Comparison of the predictions of universal scaling of the saturation dependence of the air permeability with experiment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

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

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA POINTS; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; PERCOLATION THEORY; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; UNIVERSAL POWER LAW; UNIVERSAL SCALING; WET-END;

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; SOIL MOISTURE;

AIR PERMEABILITY;

AIR PERMEABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCOLATION; POROSITY; POWER LAW; PREDICTION; SATURATION; THRESHOLD; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84865490827     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011758     Document Type: Article

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