Dynamic Effect in the Capillary PressureSaturation Relationship and its Impacts on Unsaturated Flow
S. Majid Hassanizadeh*,a,
Michael A. Celiab and
Helge K. Dahlec
a Section for Hydrology and Ecology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600GA Delft, The Netherlands
b Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
c Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Johannes Brunsgate 12, 5008 Bergen, Norway

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Fig. 1. Typical quasistatic plot of capillary pressure vs. saturation.
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Fig. 3. Diffusivity as function of water content estimated by Nielsen et al. (1962) from experiments wherein dry soil was wetted at different water suctions.
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Fig. 6. Capillary pressure headwater content curves at x = 14 cm in experiments of Smiles et al. (1968).
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Fig. 8. Plot of the difference between dynamic and static capillary pressure head vs. time rate of change of saturation in experiments of Stauffer (1978).
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Fig. 9. Cross section of a small part of the network.
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Fig. 10. Saturation vs. time (seconds). p = 20, 200, 1000, and 5000 Pa.
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Fig. 11. Time derivative of saturation vs. saturation at p = 1000 and 5000 Pa.
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Fig. 15. Saturation profiles at time t = 12 h, for various values of .
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Fig. 16. Calculated dynamic pressure head profiles for several values of at t = 12 h.
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