A Capillary Microstructure of the Wetting Front

The penetration of a fluid into a porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell containing a more viscous liquid

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SOME STEADY-STATE SOLUTIONS OF THE UNSATURATED MOISTURE FLOW EQUATION WITH APPLICATION TO EVAPORATION FROM A WATER TABLE

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Mechanisms of the displacement of one fluid by another in a network of capillary ducts

R. Lenormand, C. Zarcone, A. Sarr · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1983 · 884 citations

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Wetting Front Instability in Layered Soils

David E. Hill, J.‐Y. Parlange · Soil Science Society of America Journal · 1972 · 407 citations

Agriculture, Earth Sciences, Soil Sciences +15

Liquids in porous media

R. Lenormand · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 1990 · 298 citations

Engineering, Physics, Fluid Dynamics +13