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Front Cover -- Elements of Soil Physics -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Symbols -- Chapter 1. Composition and Physical Properties of Soils -- 1.1 COMPOSITION OF SOILS -- 1.2 SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA -- 1.3 INTERACTION BETWEEN SOLID AND LIQUID PHASES -- 1.4 INTERACTION BETWEEN SOLID PHASE PARTICLES -- 1.5 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 1.6 ANSWERS CHAPTER 1 -- Chapter 2. Equilibrium in Force Fields and Theory of Potentials -- 2.1 EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS IN FORCE FIELDS -- 2.2 POTENTIALS IN STATIC EQUILIBRIUM -- 2.3 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 2.4 ANSWERS CHAPTER 2.
Chapter 3. Static Equilibria in Soils -- 3.1 HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM -- 3.2 STATIC EQUILIBRIUM OF THE SOIL SYSTEM -- 3.3 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 3.4 ANSWERS CHAPTER 3 -- Chapter 4. General Concepts of Transport Processes in Soil -- 4.1 FLOW OF WATER -- 4.2 GAS DIFFUSION -- 4.3 HEAT CONDUCTION -- 4.4 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 4.5 ANSWERS CHAPTER 4 -- Chapter 5. Flow of Water in Soil -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 FLOW OF WATER IN SATURATED SOIL -- 5.3 FLOW OF WATER IN UNSATURATED SOIL -- 5.4 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 5.5 ANSWERS CHAPTER 5 -- Chapter 6. Gas Transport in Soil.
6.1 AMOUNT AND COMPOSITION OF SOIL AIR -- 6.2 EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS FOR SOIL AIR -- 6.3 BULK FLOW OF GAS -- 6.4 GAS DIFFUSION -- 6.5 CO2 DIFFUSION IN SOIL PROFILES -- 6.6 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 6.7 ANSWERS CHAPTER 6 -- Chapter 7. Heat Transport in Soil -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 THERMAL SOIL PROPERTIES -- 7.3 HEAT CONDUCTION IN DRY SOIL -- 7.4 THE HEAT BALANCE OF THE SOIL -- 7.5 THERMAL REGIME OF UPPER SOIL LAYERS -- 7.6 COMBINED HEAT AND WATER VAPOUR TRANSPORT -- 7.7 SUGGESTED LITERATURE -- 7.8 ANSWERS CHAPTER 7 -- Chapter 8. Epilogue.
Appendix 1. Laminar flow of liquid in a cylindrical tube. Poiseuille's law -- Appendix 2. Boltzmann substitution -- Appendix 3. Green and Ampt model. Vertical infiltration -- Subject index.
P. Koorevaar, G. Menelik, and C. Dirksen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
118346:123535 Elsevier Science & Technology