Core Ideas Understanding of preferential flow is improving, stimulated partly by new
technologies. Empirical process understanding has outstripped the capability of models to …

Although it has many positive effects, soil structure may adversely affect the filtering function
of the vadose zone that protects natural water resources from various sources of pollution …

Laboratory and numerical studies were conducted to investigate the transport and fate of
Escherichia coli D21g and coliphage φX174 in saturated soils with preferential flow under …

Blanket peats are important source areas for runoff in many northern European headwaters.
The upper peat layer (20cm) is dominant in producing flow in blanket peat catchments …

Rapid flow processes in connected preferential flow paths are widely accepted to play a key
role in the rainfall–runoff response at the hillslope scale, but a quantitative description of …

The question of whether or not soil hydraulic parameters of dual-permeability models (DPM)
can be properly identified by inverse analysis of preferential water flow data has not been …

This paper presents an experimental study of the transport of suspended particles (SP) in a
saturated porous medium, aimed at delineating the effects of pore structure on particle …

Physically based models are increasingly applied to analyze contaminant transport in soil by
preferential water flow. Unfortunately, in the past, preferential flow models were rarely …

Purpose Soil macropores play a principal role in water infiltration but they are highly
variable. The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate the temporal change in …

Leaching of contaminants through fractured aquitards such as clayey tills may occur due to
typically slow matrix advection and diffusion, or it can be dramatically enhanced in the …