Monotonicity considerations for saturated-unsaturated subsurface flow

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1328-1354

  Forsyth, P A ^a   Kropinski, M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monotonicity; Saturated unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

MONOTONICITY; SATURATED UNSATURATED FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF SOLIDS; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0031215994     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827594265824     Document Type: Article

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