to examine hydraulics of lnapls in soil, the retention curves of diesel fuel and water were both determined by hanging column method. the soil retention parameters were obtained based on van genuchten, brooks-corey and campbell’s models. in addition, the soil hydraulic conductivity for both fluids were predicted based on mualem- brooks-corey, burdine- brooks-corey, mualem-van genuchten and camp...

The capillary pressure model proposed empirically by Brooks and Corey has been used widely for several decades. However it is not clear why the Brooks-Corey capillary pressure model works so well. In this study, it has been found that the empirical Brooks-Corey capillary pressure model can be derived theoretically from fractal modeling of porous media. Also found was the correlation between the...

This volume addresses the topic of “new frontiers in resilient aging,” which is of ever-increasing significance in current gerontological and geriatric discourse and research. The topic is not only very complex, but has enormous scope and breadth, encompassing a number of psychosocial and biological models of aging, theoretical formulations, definitions, and dimensions of resilience, and the co...