Natural length scales define the range of applicability of the Richards equation for capillary flows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 7130-7144

  Or, Dani ^a   Lehmann, Peter ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

characteristic length; Richards equation; scaling; unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; EVAPORATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL DISCRETIZATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; SCALING; UNSATURATED FLOWS;

PORE SIZE;

CAPILLARITY; EVAPORATION; FIELD CAPACITY; FUEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE; POROUS MEDIUM; REMOTE SENSING; RICHARDS EQUATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 84944355689     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017034     Document Type: Article

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