Coupling of evaporative fluxes from drying porous surfaces with air boundary layer: Characteristics of evaporation from discrete pores

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Shahraeeni, Ebrahim ^a,b   Lehmann, Peter ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BOUNDARY LAYERS; AIR SPEED; AIR VELOCITIES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER THICKNESS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; DRYING RATES; EVAPORATION FLUX; EVAPORATION MODEL; EVAPORATION RATE; EVAPORATIVE DEMANDS; EVAPORATIVE FLUX; FLOW LIMITATIONS; ISOLATED PORES; LIMIT FLUX; LOW DEMAND; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; POROUS MEDIUM; POROUS SURFACE; SUPPLY CAPACITY; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE DRYING; SURFACE WETNESS; THIN BOUNDARY LAYERS; VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AIR; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CAPILLARY FLOW; DRYING; DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VAPORS;

EVAPORATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CAPILLARITY; EVAPORATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEARITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; SURFACE WATER; WATER CONTENT; WETTING; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84866972190     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011857     Document Type: Article

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