Sai K. Vanapalli

A Fractal Link Between Soil Water Retention and Freezing

Soils undergo wetting‐drying and freezing‐thawing cycles, yet their water retention and freezing behaviors are typically described within separate frameworks. This separation raises a fundamental question: do desaturation and freezing share comparable pore‐structure controls? A fractal formulation for the Soil Freezing...

Machine-Learning-Informed Parameterization for Coupled Heat–Water Transfer and Frost-Heave Deformation in Freezing Soils