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The interaction of a wetting front with an impervious surface can be described very easily in the early stages of interaction by using a superposition principle. After the time when the superposition principle fails to describe the interaction properly, two flow regimes are analysed. For most of the interaction the profile is only affected by the impervious surface near that surface and in particular the inflow into the soil layer is unchanged. Then, only at the very end of the process is the inflow decreasing because of the impervious surface.
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Parlange, J.Y., Hogarth, W.L., Fuentes, C. et al. Interaction of wetting fronts with an impervious surface — Longer time behaviour. Transp Porous Med 17, 249–256 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00613585
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