Solution of the advection-dispersion equation in two dimensions by a finite-volume Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-26

  Healy, Richard W ^a   Russell, Thomas F ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection dispersion equation; Backtracking; Eulerian Lagrangian method; Finite volume method; Forward tracking; Mass conservation; Method of characteristics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTEGRATION; MASS TRANSFER;

ADVECTION DISPERSION EQUATION; BACKTRACKING; COURANT NUMBER; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN METHOD; FORWARD TRACKING; MASS CONSERVATION; PECLET NUMBER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

ADVECTION; DISPERSION; FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUES; GROUNDWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031080235     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(96)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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