Soil salinization refers to the accumulation of water‐soluble salts in the upper part of the soil
profile. Excessive levels of soil salinity affects crop production, soil health, and ecosystem …

We reviewed the use of the van Genuchten–Mualem (VGM) model to parameterize soil
hydraulic properties and for develo** pedotransfer functions (PTFs). Analysis of literature …

Principles of Soil Physics examines the impact of the physical, mechanical, and hydrological
properties and processes of soil on agricultural production, the environment, and …

Conventional conceptual mechanisms for the hysteresis of soil-water retention are the ink-
bottle pore neck and the solid–liquid–air-contact angle. However, these mechanisms fail to …

Individual contributions of capillarity and adsorptive surface forces to the matric potential are
seldom differentiated in determination of soil water characteristic (SWC) curves. Typically …

Fractals are spatial and temporal model systems generated using iterative algorithms with
simple scaling rules. This paper reviews the literature on spatial fractals as it applies to soil …

Most analytical formulas used to model moisture retention in unsaturated porous media
have been developed for the wet range and are unsuitable for applications in which low …

A conceptual model based on the assumption that soil structure evolves from a uniform
random fragmentation process is proposed to define the water retention function. The …

Most classical predictive models of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity conceptualize the
pore space as either bundles of cylindrical tubes of uniform size or assemblies of cylindrical …

Modern hydrological models require information on hydraulic conductivity and soil-water
retention characteristics. The high cost and large spatial variability of measurements makes …