Publication Date
3-1-2021
Abstract
To design and maintain pavements, it is important to know how fast water will penetrate the underlying soil. The speed of this penetration is determined by a quantity called permeability. There are several seemingly very different empirical and semi-empirical formulas that predict permeability. A recent attempt to select the formula that best fits the experimental data ended up in an unexpected conclusion that all three formula provide a good fit for the data. But these formulas are very different, how come that all three of them fit the same data? In this paper, we explain this somewhat paradoxical result.
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-21-25
Published in Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2021, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 159-163.