Published online 26 April 2005
Published in Vadose Zone J 4:255-263 (2005)
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0076
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Unsaturated Flow Through Spherical Inclusions with Contrasting Sorptive Numbers
Alex Furmana,* and
A. W. Warrickb
a Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Now at Institute of Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences, ARO, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
b Water and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

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Fig. 1. (A) Cross section through a spherical inclusion and (B) spherical coordinate system.
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Fig. 2. Pressure head distributions for 0 = 0.01. See Table 1 for properties.
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Fig. 3. Pressure head distributions for 0 = 0.05. See Table 1 for properties.
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Fig. 4. Comparison of pressure head distributions for a sphere (right) and a circle (left) for 0 = 0.01. See Table 1 for properties.
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Fig. 5. Flow nets for selected problems. Only the right half of the stream lines is plotted.
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Fig. 6. Distribution of effective saturation. See text for Gardner and matched van Genuchten parameters.
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