Perturbation Analysis for Wetting Fronts in Richards' Equation

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-134

  Witelski, Thomas P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infiltration; Layered soils; Nonlinear diffusion; Perturbation methods; Richards' equation; Wetting fronts

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFUSION; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS;

CONSERVATION LAW; IMPERVIOUS BOUNDARIES; RICHARDS EQUATION; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; WETTING FRONTS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; INFILTRATION; SOILS;

GROUNDWATER TRANSPORT; INFILTRATION; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; RICHARDS EQUATION; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 0031142005     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006513009125     Document Type: Article

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