Modeling and analysis of evaporation processes from porous media on the REV scale

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1059-1079

  Mosthaf, Klaus ^a   Helmig, Rainer ^a   Or, Dani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

coupling; drying dynamics; evaporation; porous media; REV scale; transition

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; COUPLINGS; DRYING; DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION;

ENERGY BALANCE EQUATIONS; EVAPORATION PROCESS; EVAPORATIVE DEMANDS; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; REV SCALE; TRANSITION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CAPILLARITY; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MASS BALANCE; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84893670428     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014442     Document Type: Article

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