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Original Articles

Analytical models of infiltration and redistribution for unsaturated flow in soils with vertically non-uniform saturated hydraulic conductivity

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Pages 181-192 | Received 08 Jun 2015, Accepted 13 Dec 2015, Published online: 19 Feb 2016

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