The formation of viscous limited saturation zones behind rapid drainage fronts in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 9862-9890

  Hoogland, Frouke ^a   Lehmann, Peter ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

drainage; liquid retention; porous media; rate dependency

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; SOLVENTS;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CRITICAL WATER CONTENT; DRAINAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID RETENTION; MECHANISTIC MODELING; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; RATE DEPENDENCY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD CAPACITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; PERCOLATION; PHREATIC ZONE; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SEPARATION; TIMESCALE; VISCOUS FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84956780003     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR016980     Document Type: Article

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