Estimation of water retention parameters from nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation time distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2068-2079

  Costabel, Stephan ^a,b   Yaramanci, Ugur ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

NMR relaxometry; nuclear magnetic resonance; pore constrictions, sand clay mixtures; pore size distribution; water retention curve

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; LIME; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PORE SIZE; RELAXATION TIME; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE TESTING; SOIL SURVEYS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

CLAY MIXTURES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION; MULTIEXPONENTIAL ANALYSIS; NMR RELAXOMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXOMETRY; RELATIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WATER RETENTION PARAMETER;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIMESTONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PORE SPACE; SANDSTONE; SANDY SOIL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84877955994     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20207     Document Type: Article

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