..., at which the saturation reached 0.98. At 1.5 MPa, the air bubbles were compressed to a non-detectable level so that the sands were fully saturated. A mathematical model was established based solely on Boyle’s law to define the water retention curve in a broad sense for the domain where the water pressure...

... in the literature regarding their validity and consistency. In this study, four purposely designed experiments were carried out to measure the water retention curves (WRCs) of a compacted silty sand at different densities using the ATT and OMT. The four WRCs obtained from this study, together with extensive...

...Dennis W. Hallema; Yann Périard; Jonathan A. Lafond; Silvio J. Gumiere; Jean Caron Abstract Water retention curves are essential for the parameterization of soil water models such as HYDRUS. Although hydraulic parameters are known for a large number of mineral and natural organic soils, our...

...Chong Chen; Kelin Hu; Emmanuel Arthur; Tusheng Ren Abstract Accurate information on the dry end (matric potential less than −1500 kPa) of soil water retention curves (SWRCs) is crucial for studying water vapor transport and evaporation in soils. The objectives of this study were to assess...

... and then running Monte Carlo simulations using realizations of rock parameters directly, we calculate retention curves from realizations of rock parameters, take subsamples from these retention curves, and run simulations using parameter realizations corresponding to these selected retention curves. The retention...

... geometry control the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties such as the water retention curve, while conversely soil water and hydraulic stress often affects soil pore size. The experiments discussed in this paper focus on both of these two aspects and additionally consider how a previously applied...

...Lyle Prunty; F. X. M. Casey Abstract Water retention curves (WRC) play an essential role in characterizing soil hydraulic behavior. Numerous mathematical functions have been explicitly developed for modeling the WRC, a very recent example being a cubic spline approach using virtual data points...

... is planned to investigate the effect of confining stress on the air entry and air expulsion values, in the drying and wetting process, respectively. To evaluate the influence of stress state on these parameters, the soil water retention curve (SWRC) of the soil is determined under two different applied net...

... by assuming an empirical relationship between pore sizes and particle sizes. This pore-size distribution has been used to develop the soil water retention curve and/or the relative conductivity curve. In this study, we develop soil water retention models from particle-size distribution data based...