Capillary effect on watertable fluctuations in unconfined aquifers

Jun Kong, Cheng-Ji Shen, Pei Xin, Zhiyao Song, Ling Li, D.A. Barry, D.-S. Jeng, F. Stagnitti, D.A. Lockington and J.-Y. Parlange 1 State Key Laboratory for Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China 2 National Center for Groundwater Research and Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 3 Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment under Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 4 Laboratoire de technologie écologique, Institut d’ingénierie de l’environnement, Faculté de l’environnement naturel, architectural et construit (ENAC), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 2, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 5 Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD 4111, Australia 6 Research & Graduate Studies Office, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 7 Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853-5701 USA