The foam drainage equation for unsaturated flow in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6258-6265

  Or, Dani ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

drainage; foam equation; unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

AIR WATER INTERFACES; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; EXPLICIT FORMULATION; HYDRAULIC FUNCTIONS; INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PRESSURE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; UNSATURATED FLOWS; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DRAINAGE; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VISCOUS FLOW;

PHASE INTERFACES;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CAPILLARITY; DRAINAGE; FLOW FIELD; POROUS MEDIUM; RICHARDS EQUATION; UNSATURATED FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84884971792     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20525     Document Type: Article

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