Flynn, Denis; McNamara, Hugh; O’Kane, Philip; Pokrovskii, Alexej Application of the Preisach model to soil-moisture hysteresis. (English) Zbl 1136.76048 Bertotti, Giorgio (ed.) et al., The science of hysteresis. Vol. III. Hysteresis in materials. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press (ISBN 978-0-12-369433-1/hbk; 978-0-12-480874-4/set). 689-744 (2006). Hysteresis in porous media flows is due to the capillarity effect. This work brings a detailed comparison of experimental measurements of soil-moisture characteristics with the modeling assumption that the dependence between pressure and saturation can be represented by the Preisach model.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1117.34047]. Reviewer: Pavel Krejčí (Praha) Cited in 6 Documents MSC: 76S05 Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage 76-05 Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics 86A05 Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography Keywords:pressure; saturation PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{D. Flynn} et al., in: The science of hysteresis. Vol. III. Hysteresis in materials. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. 689--744 (2006; Zbl 1136.76048) OpenURL