Prof. Yechezkel Mualem

Recent Publications:

Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem, 2000, Modeling the dynamics of soil seal formation. Analysis of the effects of soil and rainfall properties. Water Resour. Res. 6:2341-2349.

Assouline and Y. Mualem, 2001, Soil seal formation and its effect on infiltration. Heterogeneous versus homogeneous seal approximation. Water Resour. Res. 37(2):297-306.

Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem, 2002, Infiltration during soil sealing: The effect of areal heterogeneity of soil hydraulic properties. Water Resour. Res. 38(12):1286-1293.

Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem, 2003, Effect of rainfall induced soil seal on the soil water regime: Drying interval and subsequent wetting. Transport in Porous Media 53:75-94.

Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem, 2006, Runoff from heterogeneous small bare catchments during soil surface sealing. Water Resour. Res. 42, W12405, doi:10.1029/2005WR004592.

Mualem, Y. and A. Beriozkin, 2007, Application of the "proportionate partitioning" method suggested by Poulovassilis and Kargas (2000) for determination of the domain density distribution function. Transport in Porous Media pp. 1573-1634.

Mualem, Y. and H.J. Morel-Seytoux, 2008, Capillary pressure. Chapter in the Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Edited by W. Chesworth, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherland, pp. 81-91.

Mualem, Y. and H.J. Morel-Seytoux, 2008, Permeability. Chapter in the Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Edited by W. Chesworth, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherland, pp. 531-538.

Segal, E., T. Kushnir, Y. Mualem, and U. Shani, 2008, Micro-sensing of water dynamics and roots distribution in sandy soils. Vadose Zone J. 7:1018-1026.

Segal, E., T. Kushnir, Y. Mualem, and U. Shani, 2008, Water uptake and hydraulics of the root hair rhizosphere. Vadose Zone J. 7:1027-1034.

Mualem Y., and A. Beriozkin. Letter to Editor: Reply to Comments on Application of the Proportionate Partitioning Method Suggested by Poulovassilis and Kargas (2000) for Determination of the Domain Density Distribution Function. By Mualem and Beriozkin (2008). Transport in Porous Media, DOI 10.1007/s11242-008-9237-5, 4p, May, 2008.

Mualem,Y., and A. Beriozkin, 2009, General Scaling Rules of the Hysteretic Water Retention Function Based on Mualem's Domain Theory. The European Journal of Soil Science 60(4): 652-661.

Mualem,Y., and A. Beriozkin, 2010, Letter to Editor: Response to Parlange et. al. The European Journal of Soil Science, 61(6): 1114-1117.

Cohen, M., and Y. Mualem,2011, Steady convective flow in an unsaturated state dependent anisotropic soil profile: Analysis of the affected zone from a contaminating point source. Journal of Hydrology, 396:12- 23.

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