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Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soils pp 45–60Cite as

Towards Pore-Scale Analysis of Preferential Flow and Chemical Transport

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Preferential flow is a useful generic term for describing the process whereby water and chemical movement through a porous medium follow favored routes bypassing other parts of the medium. This term does not give any indication of the pore scales involved. Sometimes macropore flow is used to describe preferential flow and this term implies that large pores of some sort are conductive. There is no consensus definition of what constitutes a macropore so one may need to carefully determine what is meant when that term is used.

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  1. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6038, USA

    R. J. Luxmoore

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, City University of New York (Y-120), New York, 10031, USA

    L. A. Ferrand

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  1. Department of Soil Physics, Agricultural Research Organization Ministry of Agriculture, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel

    David Russo

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Gedeon Dagan

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Luxmoore, R.J., Ferrand, L.A. (1993). Towards Pore-Scale Analysis of Preferential Flow and Chemical Transport. In: Russo, D., Dagan, G. (eds) Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soils. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77947-3_5

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