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The Relative Connectivity–Tortuosity Tensor for Conduction of Water in Anisotropic Unsaturated Soils

^a Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
^b Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352

View larger version (36K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Radial plots of 1/, with kn being the hydraulic conductivity scalar at direction n, as a family of ellipses at different saturations for the four soils of Zhang et al. (2003) in their Fig. 4. The numbers on the ellipses are saturations.

View larger version (32K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Radial plots of , with k*n being the reciprocal hydraulic resistivity scalar at direction n, as a family of ellipses at different saturations for the four soils of Zhang et al. (2003) in their Fig. 4. The numbers on the ellipses are saturations.