Numerical evaluation of a sensible heat balance method to determine rates of soil freezing and thawing

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kojima, Yuki ^a   Heitman, Joshua L ^b   Flerchinger, Gerald N ^c   Horton, Robert ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FLOW OF WATER; FREEZING; HEAT CONVECTION; LATENT HEAT; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THAWING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONVECTIVE HEAT; FREEZING AND THAWING; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE METHOD; HEAT-FLOW; ICE CONTENT; SENSIBLE HEAT; SOIL FREEZING; SOIL THAWING; WATER MODELS;

EVAPORATION;

EVAPORATION; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VAPORIZATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84874430946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0053     Document Type: Article

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