New publication: Water transfer model for hydrophobic soils.

This model generalizes the Darcy-Richards equation to hydrophobic soils. The numerical simulation highlights phenomena that are not yet well understood in stratified media, such as water trapping in soils and the emergence of spontaneous preferential flows.

This model is currently applied to better understand water transfer in the rhizosphere where the presence of organic matter confers amphiphilic properties to the soil.   

Link to the publication :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/ac71c1