Dynamic nonequilibrium of water flow in porous media: A review

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Diamantopoulos, Efstathios ^a   Durner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DYNAMIC CONTACT ANGLE; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; KEY PROCESS; MACRO SCALE; MODELING APPROACH; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PORE WATERS; PORE-SCALE PHENOMENON; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE HEADS; SOIL PROPERTY; TIME-DEPENDENT; WATER FLOWS;

CONTACT ANGLE; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; POROUS MATERIALS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

DRAINAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84869456028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0197     Document Type: Review

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