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Environmental Mechanics: Water, Mass and Energy Transfer in the Biosphere(Geophysical Monograph Series)

Environmental Mechanics: Water, Mass and Energy Transfer in the Biosphere(Geophysical Monograph Series)


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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 129. Modern theories of mass and heat transfer in the biosphere, based on notions of a soil-plant-atmosphere thermodynamic continuum focused on water, were generally formulated by the mid-20th century. They tended to be reductionist and flow equations combined macroscopic laws of flow and of material and energy balance. They were difficult to solve because material transfer properties tend to be strongly related to the local concentration of an entity of concern, to the location, or to both. The architecture of the soil and the plant canopy also complicated their formulation, the scale of their application and their test.

Table of Contents:
Dedication to John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS The Editors vii Preface The Editors ix Introduction Contributions to Environmental Mechanics: Introduction P. A. C. Raats, D. E. Smiles, and A. W Warrick   1 John Philip A Convergence of Paths That Culminated in John Philip's 1995 Video Recorded History of Hydrology Interview Stephen J. Burges 29 Simplification Plus Rigorous Analysis: The Modus Operandi of John Philip James C. I. Dooge 35 Infiltration Theory Infiltration Under Constant Head and Falling Head Conditions D. E. Elrick, R. Angulo-Jaramillo, D. J. Fallow, W. D. Reynolds, and C. W Parkin 47 Capillary Rise of Water Into Soil as Described by a Solution of Burgers' Equation D. Swartzendruber 55 Effect of Gravity and Model Characteristics on Steady Infiltration From Spheroids A. W. Warrick and Dani Or 65 The Seepage Exclusion Problem for Tunnel Cavities in the Saturated Capillary Fringe E. G. Youngs 71 Column Flow in Stratified Soils and Fingers in Hele-Shaw Cells: A Review J.-Yves Parlange, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Ling Li, D. A. Barry, and Frank Stagnitti 79 Wetting Front Evolution in Randomly Heterogeneous Soils Alexandre M. Tartakovsky Shlomo P. Neuman, and Daniel M. Tartakovsky 87 Swelling Soils and Solute Transport On Hydrostatics and Matristatics of Swelling Soils C D. Grant, P. H. Groenevelt, and G. H. Bolt 95 Water and Solute Transfer in Porous Media David E. Smiles 107 Equilibrium Moisture Profiles in Consolidating, Sulfidic, Coastal Clay Soils Ian White 121 Solute Transport in Infiltration-Redistribution Cycles in Heterogeneous Soils S. C. Lessoff, P. Indelman, and G Dagan 133 Analytical Solutions for Two-Dimensional Solute Transport With Velocity-Dependent Dispersion Philip Broadbridge, R. Joel Moitsheki, and Maureen P. Edwards 145 Stability Criteria for the Vertical Boundary Layer Formed by Throughflow Near the Surface of a Porous Medium C. J. van Duijn, G. J. M. Pieters, R. A. Wooding, and A. van der Ploeg 155 Injection of Dilute Brine and Crude Oil/Brine/Rock Interactions Guoqing Tang and Norman R. Morrow 171 General Aspects of Water Flow in Soils Multidimensional Flow of Water in Unsaturated Soils P. A. C. Raats 181 Effect of Temperature on Capillary Pressure Steven A. Grant and Jorg Bachmann 199 Soil Water Hysteresis Prediction Model Based on Theory and Geometric Scaling Randel Haverkamp, Paolo Reggiani, Peter J. Ross, and Jean-Yves Parlange 213 How Useful are Small-Scale Soil Hydraulic Property Measurements for Large-Scale Vadose Zone Modeling? Jan W. Hopmans, Don R. Nielsen, and Keith L Bristow 247 The Role of Estimation Error in Probability Density Function of Soil Hydraulic Parameters: Pedotop Scale Miroslav Kutflek, Miroslav Krejca, and Jana Kupcova-Vlasimska 259 Searching Below Thresholds: Tracing the Origins of Preferential Flow Within Undisturbed Soil Samples Milena Cfslerova, TomasVogel, Jana Votrubova, and Alice Robovska 265 Effect of Forced Convection on Soil Water Content Measurement With the Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Method Gerard J. Kluitenberg and Joshua L. Heitman 275 Micrometeorology Momentum Transfer to Complex Terrain John Finnigan 285 Diffusion of Heavy Particles in a Turbulent Flow M. R. Raupach 301  Simple One-Dimensional Model of Coherent Turbulent Transfer in Canopies Michael D. Novak 317 The Concept of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum and Applications M. B. Kirkham 327 Rootzone Processes, Tree Water-Use and the Equitable Allocation of Irrigation Water to Olives Steve Green, Brent Clothier, Horst Caspari, and Sue Neal 337

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Peter A. C. Raats and David Smiles are the authors of Environmental Mechanics: Water, Mass and Energy Transfer in the Biosphere, published by Wiley.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780875909882
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: American Geophysical Union
  • Height: 277 mm
  • No of Pages: 345
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 1089 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0875909884
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2002
  • Binding: SF
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Geophysical Monograph Series
  • Sub Title: Water, Mass and Energy Transfer in the Biosphere
  • Width: 216 mm


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