Abstract
Recently there has been concern that the reorientation of particles during transient flow of water in a saturated swelling material might result in the hydraulic conductivity and capillary potential not being well-defined functions of the water content. If this were the case, the conventional theory of one-dimensional liquid flow in these materials would be invalid. This paper shows that the hydraulic-conductivity/water-content relationship calculated using physically based approximate theory applied to outflow data obtained from red mud, is single-valued and independent of initial water content. Furthermore, the relationship permits recalculation, using a correct iterative procedure, of the data from which it was derived. It is concluded that the data provide no evidence to reject the theory, and that particle reorientation, if it occurs, is parametrized by the water content.
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