Constitutive model for unfrozen water content in subfreezing unsaturated soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Painter, Scott L ^a   Karra, Satish ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; GAS-FREE CONDITIONS; JUMP DISCONTINUITIES; TOTAL WATER CONTENT; UNFROZEN WATER CONTENTS; UNSATURATED CONDITION;

FROZEN SOILS;

FLUID FLOW; FREEZING; FROZEN GROUND; GAS PHASE REACTION; RICHARDS EQUATION; THERMODYNAMICS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84898893145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2013.04.0071     Document Type: Article

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