The flow in porous media has received a great deal of attention due to its importance and
many unresolved problems in science and engineering such as geophysics, soil science …

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 …

Soil hydraulic properties are necessary for many studies of water and solute transport but
often cannot be measured because of practical and/or financial constraints. We describe a …

Unsaturated soil mechanics has rapidly become a part of geotechnical engineering practice
as a result of solutions that have emerged to a number of key problems (or challenges). The …

Water retention and hydraulic conductivity are crucial input parameters in any modelling
study on water flow and solute transport in soils. Due to inherent temporal and spatial …

The water retention curve (WRC) has become a key material function to define the
unsaturated behavior of soils and other particulate media. In many instances, it can be …

Numerous empirical models exist for soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic
conductivity data. It has generally been recognized that the empirical fitting coefficients in …

The implementation of unsaturated soil mechanics into engineering practice is dependent,
to a large extent, upon an ability to estimate unsaturated soil property functions. The soil …