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Effects of Gravity and Hysteresis on 1D Unsaturated Infiltration

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Unsaturated infiltration is significant in a wide range of engineering applications including rainfall-induced landslides (Zhan et al. 2013). The spatial and temporal evolution of flow in an unsaturated medium involves a governing partial differential equation that is expressed by the Richards’ equation (1931).

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    Lizhou Wu

  2. Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China

    Runqiu Huang

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Xu Li

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Wu, L., Huang, R., Li, X. (2020). Effects of Gravity and Hysteresis on 1D Unsaturated Infiltration. In: Hydro-mechanical Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslides. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0761-8_3

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