Baver CE, Parlange J-Y, Stoof CR, DiCarlo DA, Wallach R, Durnford DS, Steenhuis TS, 2014. Capillary pressure overshoot for unstable wetting fronts is explained by Hoffman’s velocity-dependent contact-angle relationship. Water Resour. Res. 50, 5290–5297, doi:10.1002/2013WR014766
MSc and PhD students with background in Civil, Environmental or Chemical Engineering, Soil Science or Environmental Sciences (natural sciences track) for the following projects:
1) Impact of effluent irrigation on soil water dynamics and sustainable land use
2) Water repellent soils reclamation by surfactants application.
3) Characterizing surface runoff (quantity and quality) from urban areas – Kfar-Sava as a case study.
Dr. Zhipeng Liu (Nanjing Agric. Univ., China) – Biochar hydrophobicity and its effect on flow in soil with biochar additament.
Naaran Brindt – The moving boundary approach for prediction of gravity-driven unstable flow in porous media
Ziv Attia - The rule of CK and ABA in regulating plant water status and as a shoot to root long signal during biotic and abiotic stress (co-supervisor: Prof. Menachem Moshelion, Plant Sci.).
Course Level: undergraduate
Plant-water relationships.
Irrigation control using soil sensors.
Formation of water repellent soils by crops and prolonged effluent irrigation.
Water flow and solute transport in water repellent soils
Effect of contact angle on unstable water flow in soils.
