[case] SaturationLuMcCartney

The Lu - Mc Cartney water retention behavior.

This property must be a medium property, it computes the saturation of the wetting phase as function of capillary pressure.

Original source: Lu, Y., McCartney, J.S. Temperature effects on adsorption and capillarity water retention mechanisms in constrained unsaturated soils. Acta Geotech. 19, 6467-6482 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-024-02341-9 and Guo, G., Zheng, L., Lu, Y., Behbehani, F., & McCartney, J. (2026). Coupled THM modeling of bentonite heating and hydration in tank TemperatureTypes with a new temperature-dependent water retention model. Computers and Geotechnics, 190, 107736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2025.107736 Get rights and content

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